Surname  and Placename Index

To

The Leuca or Lug of Domesday.

Trans. Devon. Assoc. vol. XXVI. (1894), illus., pp. 308-312.

by

Oswald J. Reichel

Prepared by Michael Steer

The Paper was presented at the Association’s July 1894 South Molton meeting. It is for the genealogist, a treasury of names associated with the earliest research into our county’s unique history. In the Domesday Book, the value of an area of land and its resources was calculated according to size, with set values on each resource unit, so it becomes critically important to the historian to better define and understand the wide variety of archaic measurement terms used throughout the iconic survey. The paper’s author, Rev. Oswald Joseph Reichel (1840-1923) was an erudite and prolific contributor to the TDA. His professional life as clergyman-scholar was however, scandalous and has been encapsulated in an illustrated blog available here. An 1842 portrait of the author as a Small Child is available here. The Paper, from a copy of a rare journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.