The book of Dene, Deane, AdeaneA genealogical history . Dene of the Forest of Dene,. T is in the Forest of Dene, Gloucestershire,now vulgarly spelt Dean, that we find thefirst English ancestor of the stock of Berk-shire, Oxfordshire, and GloucestershireDeanes, as well as those of Dromore,Ireland. The origin of the name is by no meanscertain. Speed mentions Ardene, meaning woods and forests,as a possible one. Geraldus Cambrensis calls it DanicaSylva, or the Danes woods. Dr. Bird, the antiquary, tellsus that the word Dene is Gaelic. The Castle of , formerly called Le Dene, where the C
The book of Dene, Deane, AdeaneA genealogical history . Dene of the Forest of Dene,. T is in the Forest of Dene, Gloucestershire,now vulgarly spelt Dean, that we find thefirst English ancestor of the stock of Berk-shire, Oxfordshire, and GloucestershireDeanes, as well as those of Dromore,Ireland. The origin of the name is by no meanscertain. Speed mentions Ardene, meaning woods and forests,as a possible one. Geraldus Cambrensis calls it DanicaSylva, or the Danes woods. Dr. Bird, the antiquary, tellsus that the word Dene is Gaelic. The Castle of , formerly called Le Dene, where the Constable ofthe Royal Forest, or more generally his Lieutenant, theseneschal, lived, occupied an important position on the bordersof wild Wales. Another castle—of Dene—existed in early times, but wasbattered down, according to tradition, by the troops ofCromwell. As only the site remains, however, it is morelikely to have disappeared long before the Civil it was clear that the Denes of St. Briavels, withthe particle de and their Norman Christian names, wereforeig
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