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English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations — Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations

Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 879 pages

English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations is a nineteenth-century essay collection by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley. It explores how English family names arose and what they mean, grouping them by origins such as patronymics, nicknames, and other categories. Listeners interested in language, local history, and genealogy will find it a thoughtful guide to the stories carried by ordinary surnames.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. ENGLISH SURNAMES.
  2. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
  3. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  4. PREFACE TO THE INDEX OF INSTANCES.
  5. CONTENTS.
  6. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
  7. CHAPTER I. PATRONYMIC SURNAMES.
  8. CHAPTER II. LOCAL SURNAMES.
  9. CHAPTER III. SURNAMES OF OFFICE.
  10. CHAPTER IV. SURNAMES OF OCCUPATION (COUNTRY).
  11. CHAPTER V. SURNAMES OF OCCUPATION. (TOWN).
  12. CHAPTER VI. ‘Nicknames.’
  13. INDEX OF INSTANCES.
  14. FOOTNOTES
  15. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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