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Hi Kim

The Days of Hertfordshire worked on the land, they were mostly tenant farmers as Hertfordshire estates belonged to the large families of Hoo and Kimpton. My Days from St. Paul's Walden and Redbourn farmed at the Parsonage Farm and lived and worked at the Bury, the ancestral home of the Bowes Lyon Family. The Bury has large landscaped gardens so the Days would have been creative. There is a love of birds passed down also with various Day men, so I am not sure where that ties in yet, but a talent with creative and kitchen gardening.

The name Day is fairly popular, especially in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire and they are probably originally from the same stock. However, Days in Lincolnshire and elsewhere may well have no blood ties at all to the Hertfordshire group.

Nobody really knows for sure where the name Day originates. Said to be a corruption of the Normandy French D'Ossone, from the town of Ossone, in Normandy. Someone else thinks it a contraction of Davison, the son of David, which is the more probable derivation. Others say from the word dairy, suggesting farming. They're not sure.

Hope this helps.

Alison

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