English Surnames, their Sources and Significations: 6th edition (Revised)

English Surnames, their Sources and Significations: 6th edition

This popular work provides a comprehensive discussion of surname origins with chapters on patronymic surnames, locality-derived surnames, surnames based on office, surnames from occupations, and nicknames. There are innumerable examples and illustrations, and an "Index of Instances" which cites the sources where specific surnames were found in ancient documents.

"To review the sources of a people's nomenclature is to review that people's history. When we remember that there is nothing without a name, and that every name that is named, whether it be of a man, or man's work, or man's heritage of earth, came not by chance, or accident so-called, but was given out of some nation's spoken language to denote some characteristic that language expressed, we can readily imagine how important is the drift of each - what a record must each contain."

Charles Wareing Bardsley

(1898, 1990), 2025, 5.5" x 8.5", paper, index, 638 pp.

ISBN: 9781556132988

101-B3298