Bindloss Family History

Perhaps for a wolf hunter from Middle English binden ‘bind’ + Middle English (Old French) loues ‘wolves’. Plurals are most unusual in phrasal nicknames. The more regular singular form occurs in the name of John Byndeloue 1327 in Subsidy Rolls (Suffolk) for which see Bensley and is synonymous with Truslove (see Trussler).

The preposition in the 1302–3 example could alternatively point to a lost place-name but it is more likely to be a scribal error. The earliest examples are from the NR Yorks and WR Yorks border (Ripon, Sharow, and Langthorpe are almost neighbouring settlements).

The surname persisted in NR Yorks until the late 17th century, but its subsequent history belongs mainly to NW England where it first appears in the previous century.