Has anybody traced a line back to Leofric who was Lord of the Manor at Kempley in 1066 or to any other Leofric in Gloucestershire?

Open Domesday

http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/

Kempley-Kempley Green (original on line + other FOD places)

Lord in 1066: Edric LEOFRIC

- list Kempley and Kempley Green as having 24 households and Mitcheldean and having 28 households - which was classed as - 'very large'.

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Click on County Gloucestershire for other villages etc.

Thanks very much MPG for pointing out this great website !
Browsing this site does help us understand how the ancient Parishes looked before the dramatic changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution eg my father's line originates from Lydbrook, which barely existed then as-such, need to see Walford etc. They come under Bromsash, Herefordshire; eg nearby Ruardean had only 4 households and I thought that was one of the really old villages !

http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO6117/ruardean/

Thanks again, for someone dim like me who's tried reading the Domesday books and struggled a little, this is a great help.

That's an interesting website. Do you know if any names are listed for the inhabitants or are they all listed as households apart from the major landowners?

Unfortunately it appears that only Lords of the Manor are listed; the yeoman farmers would have had copyhold leases with the Lord of the Manor - ie effectively they owned the land but had to pay the Lord of the Manor for the privilege of farming their own land! From 1066, of course, nearly all of the Lords of the Manor were Norman; it is very easy to differentiate between saxon and norman names. John