Stagsden
Major Settlement in the Parish of Stagsden
Historical Forms
- Stacheden(e) 1086 DB 1198 FF 1202 Ass 1204,1219 FF 1227 Ass 1235 Ch 1242 Fees807 1247 Ass 1276 RH 1283 Ipm 1284 FA 1287 Ass 1302,1316 FA 1366 1390–2 CS 1428 FA 1430 IpmR 1494 Ipm
- Staggeden 1183 P
- Stachesden(e) 1196 FF 1227,1240 Ass 1247,1276,1287 Ass 1310 Fine 1311,1334 Ipm 1346 1358 Ipm 1385 Ch 1388 Cl
- Stachenden 1220 LS 1225,1242 FF
- Staggesden 1228 Cl
- Stakeden 1235 Fees460 1276 Ass
- Stachedon 1247 Ass
- Sta(c)kesden 1276 Ass 1346 Fine
- Stageden 1276 Ass 1526 LS 1610 Speed
- Stachden 1535 VE
- Stackedene 1553 NQi
- Stagsden or Stachden 1766 J
Etymology
It is easier on the whole to explain this name if we start from the assumption that Stak - is the first syllable than if we begin with Stag -, for not only are the Stach - forms much the earliest and much the most frequent in early times, but it is also easily explicable that Stak - should be voiced to Stag - before sd (aided by association with the common word stag ), while it would be very difficult to find a reason for the change from Stag - to Stak -.This presumption is supported by the fact that while we have no evidence for a pers. name Stagge we do know that there was an ON pers. name Stakkr , really a nickname, denoting a person as hefty as a 'stack' (v. Lind, Personbinamn s.n.) which is found in Staxton (Y) and in a lost Stachesbi in that county (v. Lindkvist, PN Scand. Origin , lxiii). The existence of other names in this Hundred which certainly contain a Scandinavian element make such a derivation possible. The familiar alternation in English pers. names between strong and weak forms probably led to the use of a genitival form Stacke (n ) in place of the regular Staches (cf. Stachenden supra). Alternative forms with and without voicing of the k seem to have been in use till quite late, cf. Cople and Moggerhanger infra 89, 91. v. denu .v. Addenda.