jan 1, 1463 - household

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The holding and maintaining of a house. The OED has several other shades of meaning but no examples of the word earlier than the 1380s. The surname ‘Household’ is therefore of interest although it did not survive: n.d. <i>Petro Hushald de Seleby ... toftum Walterus Husold, quondam pater meus </i>(YRS10/133); 1297 <i>Carta Petri Hushald de Seleby</i> (YRS10/122); 1312 <i>Petrus Housald de uno messuagio ... in Seleby</i> (YRS10/33). This may have derived from a place-name: 1463 ‘three roods lay in <i>Howshald</i>’, Drax (YRS102/54).

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