1 gen 1632 anni - piannet

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The common magpie, a pied or black and white bird that was very familiar to our ancestors. Like other birds seen close to the village, the jackdaw for example, it was given a personal name. The ‘mag’ of magpie is of course for Margaret, and this alternative regional name has a suffix probably derived from 'Annot’, a diminutive of Agnes: 1632 <i>A paine laid that noe tenant ... shall suffer any glead pyannatt water Crowe or Ruckes or any such Verment to brude but destroy either their eggs or young ones</i>, Burton Agnes (YRS74/88). Pyenot Hall in Liversedge dated from 1785 but was demolished in the 1990s.

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