Arthur Collins, The Baronettage of England (1740) says, 1 p70, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MelEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=collins+%22hugh+talmashe%22&source=bl&ots=5umHfht1KN&sig=DVIebWEgd-6yZaygdHGGYAlXnlM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_tubH_rHZAhVB1RQKHRgAC1oQ6AEINzAC#v=onepage&q=collins%20%22hugh%20talmashe%22&f=false), says ‘in Doomsday-Book, Toedmag (as the name was then spelt) is said to possess Lands {Ex Inf. Lio. E. of Dysert}’.

If you have a ouija board handy, I’d have a word with that Lio. (who turns out to be Lionel Tollemache, 4^th Earl of Dysart, Lord Huntingtower) and ask him what he’s playing around at.

Jeremy Harte

Sometimes dubious claims have to be reverse-engineered to find the source of the confusion or error.   The statement below can be found in a 1821 issue of the Gentleman's Magazine, and has been repeated in several later publications, as can easily be found by googling.   It was clearly believed by Ralph Tollemache, who gave two of his children the name Toedmag 

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Tollemache).

But apart from the impossible etymology suggested, there is the more serious problem that I can't find Toedmag in DB, not in the folios covering Bentley in Suffolk (LDB 287b, 295b), or anywhere else.   Where did the author of this statement get the idea from?

Keith

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