Talk:Holcombe

Holkham
Although the speculation, easily dispelled if one had time to do their homework, that there is some linguistic connection between Holcombe and Holkham is speciously tempting at first glance to hasty synthesizers, such a connection is not likely. The author of this connection nowhere supports it in any of the Holcombe or Holcomb articles with citations. I'm going to remove it. Here are my reasons.


 * Holkham is not Holcomb and does not even look like it. So, it does not belong in a disambiguation page. No one could possible be confused about which Holkham is meant: there is only one. What is really being presented is the speculation that they are related, but that would not go here.


 * One article presents an an Internet etymology (without citation) that Holcomb is derived from the Welsh and means some sort of Welsh deep valley. I would either find a real etymological dictionary to support me of get that thing out of there. These Internet genealogists are mainly interested in taking your money and will tell you anything, anything at all.


 * As for the speculation itself - woops, wrong culture, wrong location, wrong language, boys. There are no deep mountain valleys anywhere near East Anglia and furthermore the East Anglians are English not Welsh. There used to be a distinction, I fear. One cannot suppose a migration from Wales carrying the name as all the migrations went the other way.