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It was the postal authorities that suggested this name as originally this area was called Osmaston-by-Derby which was very confusing for people.
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It was the postal authorities that suggested this name as originally this area was called Osmaston-by-Derby which was very confusing for people.
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The Domesday Book tells us that Henry de Ferrers was lord of Codinton but does not say who was the sub-tenant at Codinton and Osmaston.
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Survivors probably went off to live in Normanton or Osmaston.
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The Domesday Book tells us that Henry de Ferrers was lord of Codinton but does not say who was the sub-tenant at Codinton and Osmaston.
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In the Domesday Book, Cottons is called Codetune, subsequently standardised as Codinton, and, in 1066, before the Conquest, the manorial estate was held by a lord called Osmund, the same man who also held the manors of Osmaston and Denby, losing the latter to the first of the Rosells by 1086.
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Later, the family then seems to have split again, for Thomas's descendants, the Fulchers, held Osmaston and the Codinton estate passed via the two daughters of Engenulph de Codinton into the Dethick family around 1276.
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Sir Robert's grandson, another Elias, sometimes called himself "son of Thomas" and sometimes "Elias Fulcher", showing an early example of the emergence of surnames, although he always added "de Osmaston" too.
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Codinton means "the place of Ceodda" and Osmaston "the place of Osmund" but, as the formation of the place names is thought to date back at least two centuries before to the Conquest, then Osmund either bore the same name by coincidence as the man from whom Osmaston took its name, or was a direct descendant.
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Osmund had about 60 acres of land in Codinton and another 45 or so in the adjacent manor of Osmaston.
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