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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... French , English , and Scotts - North , Southerne , and West , Meek , Moody , and Meysey , Wilde , Giddy , and Best , Brown , Hardy , and Ironsides , Manly , and Strong , Lowe , Little , and Talboys , Frank , Pretty , and Young , With ...
... French , English , and Scotts - North , Southerne , and West , Meek , Moody , and Meysey , Wilde , Giddy , and Best , Brown , Hardy , and Ironsides , Manly , and Strong , Lowe , Little , and Talboys , Frank , Pretty , and Young , With ...
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... , among others that might be assigned for this dissimilarity is the large intermixture of Dutch , German , and French families with those of English extraction . surnames . He has an amusing and learned chapter on 14 PREFACE .
... , among others that might be assigned for this dissimilarity is the large intermixture of Dutch , German , and French families with those of English extraction . surnames . He has an amusing and learned chapter on 14 PREFACE .
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... French , so far from depreciating the dignity of the royal race who bore it , seems absolutely to give them an additional grace . Thus , also , Sack , who by himself is a plain man enough , becomes a gentleman with ville tagged to him ...
... French , so far from depreciating the dignity of the royal race who bore it , seems absolutely to give them an additional grace . Thus , also , Sack , who by himself is a plain man enough , becomes a gentleman with ville tagged to him ...
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... French SUR - NOMS . From the last the English term is immediately derived . A SURname is , therefore , a name superadded to the first or Christian name , to indicate the family to which the individual 2 ESSAY I Introductory.
... French SUR - NOMS . From the last the English term is immediately derived . A SURname is , therefore , a name superadded to the first or Christian name , to indicate the family to which the individual 2 ESSAY I Introductory.
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... French le Fevre , and our own Smith ) was no doubt an artificer in iron or wood , while the primitive Agricola ( like the first of the French Fermiers , and of our English family of the Farmers ) was , in like manner , a cul- tivator of ...
... French le Fevre , and our own Smith ) was no doubt an artificer in iron or wood , while the primitive Agricola ( like the first of the French Fermiers , and of our English family of the Farmers ) was , in like manner , a cul- tivator of ...
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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