English Surnames: Essays on Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological and Humorous: with Chapters of Rebuses and Canting Arms, the Roll of Battel Abbey, a List of Latinized Surnames, &., &. |
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... bears such and such a surname because his father and his grandfather bore it : he will naturally feel desirous of knowing why and when their ancestors acquired it . And should he be successful in arriving at some probable conclusion ...
... bears such and such a surname because his father and his grandfather bore it : he will naturally feel desirous of knowing why and when their ancestors acquired it . And should he be successful in arriving at some probable conclusion ...
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... bear it , it has been the farthest from my intention to inflict pain in the mind of those individuals . So little was this my wish or my endeavour that I have , on the contrary , made it one of my chief objects to investigate the ...
... bear it , it has been the farthest from my intention to inflict pain in the mind of those individuals . So little was this my wish or my endeavour that I have , on the contrary , made it one of my chief objects to investigate the ...
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... bear- ing it belongs , as Edmund Spenser , John Milton , Alexander Pope . Hence it is evident that , although every SIRname is a surname , every surname is not a sIRname ; a dis- tinction which is now scarcely recognized , and the two ...
... bear- ing it belongs , as Edmund Spenser , John Milton , Alexander Pope . Hence it is evident that , although every SIRname is a surname , every surname is not a sIRname ; a dis- tinction which is now scarcely recognized , and the two ...
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... bears , peradventure , the name of Short , while the most weakly person of your acquaintance is called Mr. Strong . Mr. Meek is , perhaps from his passionate temper , the terror of his family , at the same time that Mr. Bright is the ...
... bears , peradventure , the name of Short , while the most weakly person of your acquaintance is called Mr. Strong . Mr. Meek is , perhaps from his passionate temper , the terror of his family , at the same time that Mr. Bright is the ...
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... bear the names of their fathers . The Editor knows a pig - dealer , whose father's name was Johnson , but the people call him Pigman , and Pigman he calls himself . This name may be now seen over the door of a public - house which this ...
... bear the names of their fathers . The Editor knows a pig - dealer , whose father's name was Johnson , but the people call him Pigman , and Pigman he calls himself . This name may be now seen over the door of a public - house which this ...
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Abbey anagram ancestors anecdote Anglo-Saxon antient antiquary Antiquities Argent Ballads Battel bear borrowed called Camd Camden Camden Soc CANTING ARMS century Christian names cloth cognomen College of Arms Conquest copies corruption curious derived descended Dialect E. F. RIMBAULT Earl Edited by J. P. Edward Edward IV England English Surnames Essay family names Filius Fitz French gentleman Glossary Hall hence Henry heraldic Heraldry hill History illustration instance J. O. HALLIWELL J. P. COLLIER J. R. SMITH JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL John Kent King knight Latin Le Sire letters Lord manner means Monte nomenclature Norman numerous occurs OLD COMPTON ST origin Percy Soc person Poems Post 8vo printed probably reader rebus remarkable Richard Romans Sancto Saxon says Scotland Scottish Shakespeare Soc signifies Sire Small 4to sobriquets surnames Sussex termination Thomas tion town verse Verstegan Vide village Warbleton William wood woodcuts word WRIGHT