Manning or Mannyng

The surname Manning or its earlier spelling of Mannyng is fairly common around Stowupland but especially in Stowmarket’s history.

20th May 1456, will of William Mannyng of Stowmarket.  After payments of 6s 8d for his burial in the church of ‘Blessed Peter of Stowe and a further 6s 8d to the ‘reparation of the same church’ he left the residue of his estate to his wife Margaret including lands & tenements on Stowmarket, Thorneys & Chylton Hamlet. {SLHG/ ECA/wills/Peter Northeast}