Brandwine
Brandwine is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed of brand (brand) and wine (friend).
Variants:
Branwine [William Bawdwen 1809 Dom Boc 1 (Derbyshire): 322].
Branuuine [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 52].
Brandwine [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 113].
Brandwin [Olof von Feilitzen 1937 The Pre-conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, page 207].
Branwin [Philip Morgan 1978 Domesday Book 27 (Derbyshire): chapter 12, paragraph 4].
Prototheme:
Bʀᴀɴᴅ, brond = A ʙʀᴀɴᴅ, a torch [Joseph Bosworth 1838 A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language, 1st edition, page 64].
Deuterotheme:
Wine = friend [Robert Ferguson 1883 Surnames as Science, page 67].
Usage:
A man called Branuuine (Branwine) held land in Derbyshire during the reign of King Eadweard III (the Confessor): (approximately) “In BRANTVNE ⁊ Wadeſcel . ħᵬ Branuuine . VII . bou͛ t͛ræ ⁊ IIII . ac֞s ad glᵭ” [Philip Morgan 1978 Domesday Book 27 (Derbyshire): chapter 12, paragraph 4]: “In Brantune (Brampton) and Wadeſcel (Wadſhelf) Branwine had ſeven oxgangs of land and four acres to be taxed” [William Bawdwen 1809 Dom Boc 1 (Derbyshire): 322].
