This page is a resting place for miscellaneous curiosities regarding the use of the family name "Bucklin" or its variants in early England.  Specifically, it will be a page concerning mentions, before 1799,  in English history of the name "Bucklin" or "Buckland" or other likely variations. 

This page is not intended to discuss the variations of the family name "Bucklin" in America.

This page is not intended to form historical evidence of any connection between those mentioned and the William Bucklin who arrived in New England in the 1600.   The page only is a collection of notes regarding the name, for those with a curiosity about such mentions.

"THE MAGNA CHARTA SURTIES, 1215 ," by Frederick Lewis Weis, Th.D, and Arthur Adams, PhD, 159, page 107, line 159, mentions that a MAUDE DE MANDEVILLE, married as her second husband, HUGH DE BOCHLANDE of Buckland who was living in 1176. The reason for the mention of Maude de Mandeville is that her grandson William de Lanville was one of the Surities for the performance of the Magna Charta.

Remember that in early England, written documents were not common, so names were remembered as they were pronounced locally, often pronounced quickly. That is why "Bucklin" and "Buckler" are both Old English pronunciation variations of "Buckland."