Akar Fitz Bardolph (Harker Surname)

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Adrianne Harker

Akar Fitz Bardolph (Harker Surname)

Legg inn av Adrianne Harker » 26 okt 2006 12:24:10

Please, can anyone help to point me in the right direction?

I am researching ancestry in Swaledale, Yorkshre, England. Recently I came
across this strand of correspondence on genealogy.com. It was posted by Tony
Owen who appears to have researched the name of Harker extensively and is
well respected.


Edmund Cooper - "Swaledale"
".........in the reign of Henry I, Walter de Gant was succeeded by his son
Gilbert, Earl of Lincoln, whose only child, Alice, died without issue. Alice
following her Grandmother's (Matilda - daughter of Stephen of Brittany)
example, some time before 1174 left in her will to Bridlington Priory -
' ... all the pasture and herbage of Swaledale from Herkey (Harkerside) as
far as the stream of Harwardesdale (Haverdale or Crackpot Gill) as it lies
on the south side of the River Swale,........"
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Harker is one of the commonest surnames in that dale, especially in the
upper dale from Grinton, through Muker up to Keld and Thwaite at the head of
the dale - Five named Harkaye are given as Holders of Tenements and Lands in
the Manor of Muker at Thwaite in 1538, and in similar lists for 1618 the
name appears as Harker in Muker and Keld, together with 10 Harkers listed
for Thwaite.

Harkerside is a large tract of moorland on the south side of Swaledale west
of Reeth and a place name believed to date back to pre-Norman times and may
have Norse origins. It therefore seems likely that the Surname Harker in
Swaledale derives from that place although the place-name may itself derive
from a Norse personal name.

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Edmund Bogg - "Richmondshire" (James Miles, Leeds 1908)
"Harkerside probably got its prefix from the Akara or Harclas of
Scandinavian descent; side or scheide in Teutonic means a watershed, a
slope, a face (of anything) and even in street placenames a roadway or
path.; so that Harkerside would be the field-way of the Akars.
At the (Norman) Conquest, the Lord of Ravensworth - of Danish descent, ....
was named Akar-Fitz-Bardolph, and the Harclas of Hartley Castle near Kirkby
Stephen are probably other variant examples of the patronymic now spelt
Harker, but during the 14th or 15th Centuries it was Harca, later changed to
Harkey. We almost think that the antecedents of every Harker might be run to
their native earth, here on the bleak north-facing slope of "Swa'dle" (as
the natives love to clip its syllables in common speech)"

My problem is that I cannot find other sources for Akar Fitz Bardolph or his
ancestors or descendants.


Thanks,

Adrianne Harker

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