Släkthistoria för Missenden
Missenden Vad efternamn betyder
from Great or Little Missenden (Bucks) recorded as Mesendena in 1154 Missend' about 1182 and Mussend' about 1200. The place-name may derive from Old English *myssen ‘growing with mysse’ (a derivative of the plant name *mysse the exact sense of which is unknown) + denu ‘valley’. Alternatively the initial element may be a lost river-name *Mysse (genitive *Myssan) probably an early name for the river Misbourne.
Källa: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021
