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Excerpt from English Surnames: Their Sources and SignificationsBook, casting aside the new importation, were, in the great majority of cases, obsolete by the end of the twelfth century, and of those which have survived and descended to us as surnames, well-nigh all are devoid of diminutive or patronymic desinences - a clear proof that they were utterly out of fashion as personal names during the era of surname formation. The Norman invasion wa...

Excerpt from A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American InstancesLondon Commercial and Court Directories, 1870. (when Cited as London simply, the Commercial Directory is intended.) Monmouthshire, and Chief Towns and Places in South Wales, 1871.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important histori...

Excerpt from A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American InstancesLondon Commercial and Court Directories, 1870. (when Cited as London simply, the Commercial Directory is intended.) Monmouthshire, and Chief Towns and Places in South Wales, 1871.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important histori...

Excerpt from A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American InstancesOn january 1, 1896, the author, in closing his Introduction to this Dictionary, which he did' not live to see in print, adds the following words: This preface is very unscientific in its arrangement. I frankly admit it, for I am not scientific. I never had the chance. The cares of a heavy parish have only allowed me minutes to jot down the results of past r...

Excerpt from A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American InstancesOn january 1, 1896, the author, in closing his Introduction to this Dictionary, which he did' not live to see in print, adds the following words: This preface is very unscientific in its arrangement. I frankly admit it, for I am not scientific. I never had the chance. The cares of a heavy parish have only allowed me minutes to jot down the results of past r...

Excerpt from A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American InstancesOn January I, 1896, the author, in closing his Introduction to this Dictionary, which he did not live to see in print, adds the following words: This preface is very unscientific in its arrangement. I frankly admit it, for I am not scientific. I never had the chance. The cares of a heavy parish have only allowed me minutes to jot down the results of past re...

Excerpt from A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American InstancesOn January I, 1896, the author, in closing his Introduction to this Dictionary, which he did not live to see in print, adds the following words: This preface is very unscientific in its arrangement. I frankly admit it, for I am not scientific. I never had the chance. The cares of a heavy parish have only allowed me minutes to jot down the results of past re...

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This is the classic reference work on English and Welsh surnames, with dated and documented examples given in the text and American instances cited in many cases where the name appeared in the directories of such cities as Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. It contains over 30, 000 entries in dictionary form, three columns to a page, giving the origin and history of each surname, lists of persons bearing the name in various centuries, and the...

Students of Puritan New England genealogy will appreciate Bardsley's lively discussion of the eccentricities of Puritan naming practices, which occupies nearly half of this volume. It was left to the English Puritans to take Biblical naming one step further, by "baptising children by scriptural phrases, pious ejaculations or godly admonitions, " as if to "separate the truly godly and renewed portion of the community from the world at large . ....

Excerpt from English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations Book, casting aside the new importation, were, in the great majority of cases, obsolete by the end of the twelfth century, and of those which have survived and descended to us as surnames, well-nigh all are devoid of diminutive or patronymic desinences - a clear proof that they were utterly out of fashion as personal names during the era of surname formation. The Norman invasion ...

Excerpt from The Romance of the London Directory Fireside, who have written to me asking for information in respect of their own, or some other name they were interested in. A few I have been able to answer, the rest have had to lie by, for I have not had the time or health to attend to them. I only wish there was the possibility of this preface meeting the eye of my American cousins. I have a large batch of letters of inquiry, from the other...

Excerpt from Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature I will not be so ill-natured as to quote the names of all the writers who have denied the existence of Puritan eccentricities at the font. One, at least, ought to have known better, for he has edited more books of the Puritan epoch than any other man in England. The mistake of all is that, misled perhaps by Walter Scott and Macaulay, they have looked solely to the Commonwealth period. The custo...

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