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A Book of Welsh Names
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Our Price: AU$34.50
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This reference work surveys the personal names of Wales, showing their derivation and meaning, and giving for each name male or female designation, meaning, construction, and early use.
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A Cornish Names Sourcebook
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Our Price: AU$34.50
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Although the beginning of the 18th century saw the demise of Cornish as a spoken language, the names unique to the region remained, and these three studies give a wealth of information on those names, their origins and meanings.
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A Gazetteer of Welsh Place-Names
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Our Price: AU$45.00
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This is the first paperback edition of a long-established standard work (first published in 1957), giving the correct spelling of Welsh place-names. This invaluable guide also indicated the ...
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Australian Place Names
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Our Price: AU$32.95
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From Abbotsford to Zillmere, 'Australian Place Names is a fascinating guide to the meanings and origins of more than 2000 of Australia's best-known place names ...
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British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning
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Our Price: AU$34.50
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This reference work takes all of Great Britain as its subject, and seeks to identify and explain British surnames in great part according to their origin and use. The majority of the work is an alphabetical listing of British names with their origin or meaning ...
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English Surnames: Origins and Meanings
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Our Price: AU$27.50
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Written by Mark Antony Lower and published in 1843 this book contains essays on the historical origins and meanings of surnames. Consisting of 15 chapters in nearly 300 pages, this ...
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English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations
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Our Price: AU$42.50
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An excellent book for family historians researching the background of arguably the most important aspect of their research... the meaning and origin of the very names that they are researching. ...
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Family Names and Their Story
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Our Price: AU$34.50
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Written by S. Baring-Gould, and publish in 1910, this reference work still provides invaluable information, not only for Scottish, but for English surname origins as well.
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Family Photographs and How to Date Them
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Our Price: AU$46.50
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For those engaged in family research there is nothing more frustrating that an early photograph without any label to help identify the subject or the setting. But there are always visual clues, and the strongest of these come from what our ancestors are wearing ...
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Genealogy and Surnames
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Our Price: AU$34.00
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An excellent text book which is a useful study in the use and origins of surnames. Essential reading for any serious genealogist. High quality scanned images of the ...
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Genealogy and Surnames, with Some Heraldic and Biographical Notes
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Our Price: AU$34.50
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Written by William Anderson in 1865, to this day, this is still an invaluable study of Scottish names and their origins, and as such it surveys an astonishingly broad array of names and how they came about ...
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German-American Names
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Our Price: AU$63.00
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Have you ever been curious about the meaning of German names? Ever been puzzled about their origin or stumped by their sometimes impossible combination of sounds.P Professor George Jones has ...
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Grenham's Irish Surnames
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Our Price: AU$52.50
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Ireland was one of the first European countries to adopt hereditary surnames. Nine centuries of change, along with its history of immigration, colonisation and linguistic upheaval, have produced an ...
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How Do You Say ..? Places in Cornwall, Location, Pronunciation, Meaning
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Our Price: AU$30.50
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Those who love Cornwall fall into several categories: the indigenous Cornish whose families have lived here fore centuries, those who have married into Cornish families, the people from ...
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Irish Names and Surnames: Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall
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Our Price: AU$28.00
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This wonderful book explains the meanings and origins of Irish first names and surnames. In compiling this authoritative dictionary, Fr. Woulfe spent 25 years in the field (Ireland, England ...
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Irish Place Names
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Our Price: AU$38.00
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First published in 1994, and having been through various editions and printings, this is the most complete guide to Irish placenames published in modern time. It explains the ...
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Manning's Place Names of South Australia: From Aaron Creek to Zion Hill
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Our Price: AU$49.50
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First published in 1986 under the title 'Romance of Place Names of South Australia', with a second edition appearing in 1990 with the title 'Manning's Place Names of ...
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Manning's Place Names of South Australia: From Aaron Creek to Zion Hill
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Our Price: AU$79.50
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First published in 1986 under the title 'Romance of Place Names of South Australia', with a second edition appearing in 1990 with the title 'Manning's Place Names of ...
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Manning's Place Names of South Australia: From Aaron Creek to Zion Hill (CD and Book Set)
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Our Price: AU$99.50
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The book was first published in 1986 under the title 'Romance of Place Names of South Australia', with a second edition appearing in 1990 with the title 'Manning's Place Names ...
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Matheson's Special Report on Surnames in Ireland
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Our Price: AU$16.00
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Published by the General Register Office, this study is the first detailed official work on surnames in Ireland.
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Our Italian Surnames
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Our Price: AU$55.00
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'Our Italian Surnames' covers every fact of Italian names and naming practices. It is here we discover, for example, that 'Bussolari' is Italian for compass, 'Orsini' means bear, ...
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Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names
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Our Price: AU$31.95
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From Garlick Hill to Pratt's Bottom, this absorbing dictionary covers hundred of streets and areas of Greater London. Discover their linguistic and historical origins following the development of ...
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Personal And Family Names
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Our Price: AU$25.00
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By Harry Alfred Long (Glasgow School Board). Published in 1883. A popular monograph on the origin and history of the nomenclature of the present and former times.
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Place Names of Scotland
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Our Price: AU$42.50
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The study of place-names may be said to stand to history and ethnology in somewhat the same relation as the study of fossils stands to geology. Each group of fossils ...
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Scots Kith and Kin: A Guide to the Clans and Surnames of Scotland
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Our Price: AU$16.95
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Scots Kith and Kin is a compact and comprehensive guide to over 4,000 Scottish family names and their clan affiliations. First published in 1953, this classic work has now been updated again ...
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