Definitions by Holderby
holderby
related to holdenby, holder, and holden.
The term "by" means place and the reason the name holden and holder got confused together is because in the old churches the people were mostly illiterate and couldn't read there own name, so when the literate people read them, the "r" looked like an "n" or vice versa.
The term "by" means place and the reason the name holden and holder got confused together is because in the old churches the people were mostly illiterate and couldn't read there own name, so when the literate people read them, the "r" looked like an "n" or vice versa.