Butchers

Butchers
This interesting surname is of French origin and is an occupational name for a butcher or slaughterer, an important occupation in medieval England. The derivation is from the Old French "bouchier" and the Middle English development "bo(u)cher". The following examples illustrate the name development after 1184 (see below), Richard le Bucher (1240 Feet of Fines of Essex), William Bochier (1327 Subsidy Rolls of Sussex), Alan le Boucher (ibid), Thomas le Bouker (1332 Subsidy Rolls of Lancashire). In the modern idiom the variants include Bucher, Bou(t)cher, Boucker, and Bowker. Occupational surnames originally denoted the actual occupation followed by an individual, and later became hereditary. One Richard Butcher (1583 - 1665) was town clerk of Stanford (1646) and the name is recorded in Barbados, on the Baptismal Register of December 1678, in St. Michael's parish, with the baptism of Richard, the infant son of John and Mary Butchep. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Ailwardus le Bochere which was dated 1184, in the Pipe Rolls of London, during the reign of King Henry 11, known as "The Builder of Churches", 1154 - 1189. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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  • Butchers —    Elections to the Mistery of Butchers are recorded in 1328 (Cal. L. Bk. E. p. 233).    Fined in 1180 as an adulterine guild.    The butchers quarters were Eastcheap and the Shambles at Newgate.    Foreign butchers were admitted to sell flesh in …   Dictionary of London

  • Butchers — To have a butchers at something is to have a look. This is a cockney rhyming slang word that has become common. The reason butchers means a lookeven though it doesn t rhyme is because it is short for butchers hook and hook of course, does rhyme …   The American's guide to speaking British

  • butchers — • Rhyming Slang , short for for butchers hook meaning look . A very common example of rhyming slang, usual examples are give us a butchers or let s av a butchers …   Londonisms dictionary

  • butchers — noun Variant spelling of butchers (Cockney rhyming slang) …   Wiktionary

  • butchers — Noun. A look. From the Cockney rhyming slang butcher s hook. E.g. Let s have a butchers at it before you put it back …   English slang and colloquialisms

  • butchers — I. /ˈbʊtʃəz/ (say boochuhz) Colloquial –adjective 1. ill. –phrase 2. go butchers (hook) at, to become angry with. {rhyming slang, butcher s hook crook} II. /ˈbʊtʃəz/ (say …  

  • Butchers Hill, Baltimore — Infobox nrhp | name =Butchers Hill Historic District nrhp type = hd location= Baltimore, Maryland locmapin = Maryland area = architect= architecture= Late Victorian added = December 28, 1982 governing body = Local refnum=82001582cite web|url=http …   Wikipedia

  • Butchers' Bridge — Love padlocks on the Butcher bridge in Ljubljana, Slovenia Butchers Bridge (Slovene: Mesarski most) is a footbridge crossing the river Ljubljanica in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. It connects Ljubljana Central Market and the Petkovšek… …   Wikipedia

  • Butchers' Hall Corner —    High street in St. Nicholas Shambles by the small lane there leading to the gate at the Butchers Hall Corner, 42 Eliz. (Lond. I. p.m. III. 272).    Butchers Hall stood in this parish until destroyed in the Fire 1666 …   Dictionary of London

  • butchers' knife — noun A large, sharp knife, used by the butcher for hacking meats. He came after me with a butchers knife …   Wiktionary

  • Butchers, Street of —    Market of flesh and fish allowed still to be kept in Vico Carnificum occidentalium in parochia Sancti Nicholai after the erection of les Stokkes, 17 Ed. II. (Cal. P.R. 1321 4, p. 425).    Later, in the time of Richard II., Butchers were not… …   Dictionary of London

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