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Family names and family history / David Hey.
- Title
- Family names and family history / David Hey.
- Author
- Hey, David.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Hambledon and London, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | CS2375.G7 H49 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 240 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Family names are an essential part of everyone's personal history. This work shows how, when and where families first got their names. The author demonstrates how settlement patterns and family groupings can be traced back towards their origins using local and national records.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-221) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I. The history of family names. Names and history ; The Normans ; The origins of English family names ; The development of family names ; Stability and change. -- II. Tracing surnames back in time. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries ; Family names in the seventeenth century and earlier. -- III. Tracing your own name. Steps to tracing your surname ; The most common surnames ; Maps.
- ISBN
- 1852852550
- OCLC
- 45328955
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library