THE SATTERLY NAME A continually updated document on the history and usage of the surname Satterly Mr. Satterly Updated September 8, 2021 A fictional and distinguished Mr. Satterly III Title: The Satterly Name Author: Mr. Satterly Publisher: Mr. Satterly Date: Updated September 8, 2021 Copyright: Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal Email: [email protected] Website: https://MrSatterly.com/ Contents 1 The Satterly Name1 1.1 The origin of the Satterly name ............ 1 1.2 The meaning of Satterly from Satterleigh...... 3 1.3 The meaning of Satterly from Sotterley ....... 5 1.4 Final thoughts....................... 5 2 References7 2.1 Books............................ 7 2.2 Booklets .......................... 26 2.3 Magazine articles..................... 27 2.4 Newspaper articles.................... 28 2.5 Papers............................ 28 2.6 Reports........................... 29 3 Genealogy 31 3.1 Genealogy of Edmund de Soterley........... 31 3.2 Timeline .......................... 32 4 Name usage 41 4.1 Books............................ 41 4.2 Buildings.......................... 42 4.3 Businesses......................... 45 4.4 Bodies of water...................... 65 4.5 Cemeteries......................... 66 4.6 Communities........................ 66 4.7 Farms............................ 67 4.8 Hospitals.......................... 67 4.9 Methods .......................... 68 4.10 Mountains ......................... 69 4.11 Parks ............................ 69 4.12 Places............................ 69 4.13 Roads............................ 70 4.14 Schools........................... 74 4.15 Ships ............................ 74 4.16 Songs............................ 75 4.17 Tools............................. 76 4.18 Trails ............................ 79 4.19 Valleys ........................... 79 4.20 Other ............................ 79 5 Name usage in fiction 81 IV CONTENTS V 5.1 Book characters...................... 81 5.2 Buildings.......................... 90 5.3 Businesses......................... 91 5.4 Movie characters..................... 91 5.5 Play characters ...................... 93 5.6 Schools........................... 94 5.7 Short story characters.................. 95 5.8 TV characters.......................101 Appendices 102 Glossary 103 Bibliography 106 Etymology references ......................106 Genealogy references ......................111 Name usage references.....................113 Name usage in fiction references . 121 Glossary references .......................133 Copyright licenses ........................133 Index 134 1 The Satterly Name What does the word Satterly mean? Where does the word come from? Has it’s meaning changed over time? How are the variant spellings related to each other? I seek to answer those questions here. Satterly appears to be just one spelling of the same name. This list is a compilation of all the variants by other researchers. I suspect some of these may not belong on the list, but I haven’t done original research on variants yet. Satele Satterlee Soterle Satelee Satterlei Soterlee Sateley Satterleigh Soterlega Saterlaye Satterley Soterlegh Saterle Satterly Soterlei Saterlee Saturlee Soterleigh Saterlei Saturleigh Soterley Saterleigh Saturley Soterly Saterleye Saturly Sotterle Satherley Shatterley Sotterlee Satherlie Shitterley Sotterly Satterlay Sittelee Satterle Sitterlee 1.1 The origin of the Satterly name There are a few theories or guesses about the origins and meaning of the Satterly surname. Some have more evidence than others. 1. Satterly is a local name of Satterleigh, Devon, England. 2. Satterly is a local name of Sotterley, Suffolk, England and a migration of Satterlee or Satterleys from Sotterley, Suffolk, England to Satterleigh, England happened after the Wars of the Roses. 3. Satterly is from a group of people who lived in France in hills called Satterls and the nearby valleys were called lees. 4. Satterly is from Norway and came to England around 1000 AD. Almost all surname dictionaries say the Satterly name is from Satterleigh, England. If correct, that would make the name a lo- cational surname or a local name. Many Satterly’s including the 1 CHAPTER 1. THE SATTERLY NAME 2 variant spellings can trace their genealogy back to Satterleigh in Devon, England. Some of the earliest usage of the name uses "de". For example, "de Saterleye". From what I understand, at the time it was used in the 1200s the "de" meant from or "from Saterleye". So if Satterly is a local name then maybe the name simply means someone from Satterleigh. Two dictionaries say just that. [4][45] Reverend Elbert Elroi Satterlee believed the "de" means the name must have spent time in France. [30] A French connection is interesting because in the early 1900s, John Charles Satterlee of Chicago, Illinois, said a group of people lived in the hills of France and that these hills were called Satterls and the valleys called lees. According to him those Satterlees followed Roger Williams to Amer- ica. Around the 1960s to 1970s genealogist Goldie Satterlee Moffatt desperately searched for John Satterlee’s work. She only came across bits and pieces pointing to its existence. Today, despite the massive reach of internet I found nothing. Based on his odd writing style and grandiose claims I think that maybe the research never even happened, but as the saying goes the absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence. Another claim is that Satterly is from Sotterley in Suffolk, Eng- land. The possibility of a Suffolk connection has come up for cen- turies. After backing the losing side in the Wars of the Roses the Satterlees or Satterleys of Sotterley in Suffolk, England, had their land confiscated by the King. Later, a group of Satherlys in Devon were found using the same coat of arms as those in Suffolk. Based on that information one source made the assumption a migration from Sotterley to Satterleigh happened. [35] In the 1960s Reverend R. D. Thompson of Kent, England, did research into the Sotterley connection and claims it is not true. He could find no evidence of migration of people from Sotterley to Satterleigh and believed any lines of a Sotterley or related surname died out. [29] The 1846 book The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk is at least partially the source of many of the claims to a Suffolk connection. But the author Alfred Suckling also thought the line died out. Maybe Suckling is also the real source to why Thompson said what he did. [48] Others still disagree and there are genealogies and descriptions in several books showing or describing a direct line all the way back to Suffolk. Then there is a connection to Norway. According to Marion Pease Satterlee the name originates there. That information appears as a letter and second hand account in Moffatt’s book. [30] While there are some Saeterli’s in Norway there is probably no connection. CHAPTER 1. THE SATTERLY NAME 3 I am still researching the Suffolk connection at the moment. As always it is a mess of references, uncited material, and deciphering when the author’s are guessing or not. 1.2 The meaning of Satterly from Satterleigh If Satterly is a local name of Satterleigh, England, then I must look at what does the place name Satterleigh means. From the research listed below Satterleigh is probably a combination of two words – satter and leigh. Let’s look at each of those words and what sources claim about their origins. First, I will start with satter using sources that reference the surname or place name. 1. Satter is the Anglo-Saxon deity Sætere, Saetere, or Saetor 2. Satter or Sæter is a given name 3. Satter is the Old English word saetere, sætere,¯ or saeterd meaning robber, waylayer, or spy 4. Satter is the Old English word seter an antecedent of the Middle English plant-name seter- "hellebore" 5. Satter is the Old Norse word seter, setter, setr, or sætr meaning a dwelling, house, or seat For the the Anglo-Saxon god claim to work it first requires the existence of an Anglo-Saxon god named Saetere. The earliest ap- pearance of Saetere is as Krodo in The Chronicles of Saxony in 1492. Here is where the problems start. Many references say Saetere is an alias for the Norse god Loki. Looking at Scandinavian influence on place names in England it seems they probably never made it as far as Satterleigh in large numbers. Maybe the language influence made it that far, but the existence of Saetere itself is a problem. This connection while probably not true will need more research on my part. Others link Saetere to Saturn and even claim Saturday was named after this god. A few doubted Saetere even existed and instead believed that Saturday was most likely Saturn’s Day. Those researchers and authors turned out to be correct as Saturday is now accepted as being named after the god Saturn and not Saetere. It seems to me the most likely explanation is that the Anglo-Saxon god Saetere never existed and I think the Satter-Saetere link is just CHAPTER 1. THE SATTERLY NAME 4 Earliest appearance of Krodo later Saetere [15] as unlikely. This connection is the most popular explanation of what Satter means in older books. In 1858, Robert Ferguson in English Surnames and Their Place in the Teutonic Family doubted any connection to an Anglo-Saxon deity and instead suggests that Satter may be a man’s name. Ferguson says Satter How, England, is named after a man named Satter and that How is old Norse for grave-mound. [18] The Old English saetere, sætere,¯ or saeterd does mean robber, waylayer, or spy. This explanation has been copied countless times across many books. It will likely be the first and maybe the only one you will find elsewhere. Carole Hough in the paper The Place-Name Satterleigh proposes satter might be from the Old English plant name for hellebore. She provides plenty of circumstantial support, but stresses it is only a suggestion and not fact. [24] It may not matter, but there is a native species of hellebore called Helleborus foetidus that grows across Devon, England, and it can grow in wooded areas. Maybe the Norse word seter was used in English place names, but according to The Place-Name Satterleigh this claim is unlikely since Scandinavian influence didn’t reach Satterleigh.