1175 to 1176�� Radulfo filio�Forthingi - property owner in Worcestershire.� Whatever the origin of a name was, the clerk had to write it down, another had to copy it, and� a modern transcriber has to correctly read the handwriting.� For example, did a resident of York in 1327 really call himself 'Randulfus de Novo castro', as he appears in a tax list, or 'Randulph Newcastle'?� Likewise, did a resident in Worcestershire really call himself 'Radulfo filio Forthingi', as he appears in a tax list, or Radulf the son of Farthegn'?� Most scribes were unfamiliar with the history and meaning of the name Farthegn and they eventually replaced it with Ferthing, now Farthing.
ca 1176 to 1183 James the son of Fardein - witnessed a charter of Cirencester Abbey, Gloucestershire concerning a house and land in Bristol.
ca 1176 to 1183 Roger - the brother of the James Fardein, witnessed a charter in Bristol. The Bristol moneyer named Farthegn had at least 4 sons that survived to adulthood. The average per family at this time was two.
1192����������� Robert Fardein - he endowed St. Augustine abbey in Bristol with property.� Bristol had become the second largest city in England with a population of 9,500.
ca. 1200������� Agemund Fetharing - he owned buildings and land in Canterbury.� If this is the same man as the Agmund Ferthig in Yorkshire, then his name is another mangled form of Farthegn.� A moneyer named Agemund was a mint-master at Canterbury.
1206����������� Warner the son of Fardein - he was known as one of the "24 principal citizens" of Lincoln.� Although Warner has a Norman name, he was most certainly Anglo-Scandinavian.� Very few Normans settled in Lincolnshire and even the leading nobles of English and Danish extraction were left undisturbed by the Conquest.� However, Norman names such as William, Hugh, and Warner became popular with the upper classes.
1206����������� Hugh Fardhayn son of Warner Fardhayn - he owned property in Lincoln.� "Son of" has been dropped, leaving these men with a true, inherited surname.
1219����������� William Farding - he was listed in the Assize Rolls of Yorkshire.� Reaney and Wilson list Farding as an apparent misspelling of Farthegn.
1226 Roger Farthayn - He sold four houses for 30 silver shillings in the town of Ilchester in Somersetshire.
1227 Walter Fereden - he is listed in Suffolk. The element Fere- rhymed with where and was pronounced like the modern Norwegian surname Faerden.
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