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A Book of Welsh Names
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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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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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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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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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Cornish Family Names
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This handy reference work serves not only to give the origins and meanings of over 100 true Cornish family names. It is packed with information and stories of many Cornish people who have left their mark and their family names in some of the farthest flung corners of the ...
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English Surnames: Origins and Meanings
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Published by the General Register Office, this study is the first detailed official work on surnames in Ireland.
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Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names
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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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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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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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Scottish Clans and Tartans
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Illustrated guide to Scotland's clans and tartans. Each entry covers the origins of the clan, the location and the renowned clansmen.
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Scottish Place-Names
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'Scottish Place-Names', the result of twenty years' meticulous research, remains the only comprehensive and systematic study of Scottish place-names. First published in 1976, it has now been re-released as a ...
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Scottish Surnames
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For everyone wishing to trace their Scottish roots, this handy and comprehensive volume to over 1000 surnames is the ideal guide to the variety of names found in Scotland ...
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Searching for Surnames: A Practical Guide to Their Meanings and Origins
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Are there 'Tadpoles' or 'Hedgehogs' in your family tree? Were your ancestors 'Silly', 'Daft', 'Vague' or 'Horrible'? Did they 'Fidget', 'Stammer' or 'Tremble'? Did they suffer from a 'Headache' or ...
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Stufflebeem, Brockway and Sturt: The Origins of Our Surnames
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Defining the meaning and derivations, as well as giving associated names for over 2000 surnames, this book 'Stufflebeem, Brockway and Sturt' answers that perennial question that everyone asks, ...
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Surnames of the United Kingdom
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A concise A-Z of Surnames in the United Kingdom by Henry Harrison, published 1912. The two volumes which make up the 'Surname of the United Kingdom' includes an essay ...
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Surrey Place Names
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Every village or town has a name. We use them every day, even though most were created at least 1,300 years ago. Yet, until now, we knew little about how ...
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The Book of Ulster Surnames
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What's your name? What was your mother called? And her mother? What was your father's mother's name? Most of us know at least a few of the surnames that ...
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The Celtic Place Names of Scotland
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First published in 1926, this remains the best and most comprehensive reference guide to the Celtic place-names of Scotland. Now reprinted and published in a paperback edition, this classic work ...
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The Century Cyclopedia of Names, 1894
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While the Century Company was compiling it's Dictionary in the late 1800's it decided to draw all the proper name references it found into a separate appendix to be included ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names
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Familiar or curious, place names are part of the linguistic and cultural heritage of the British Isles. This is an irresistable reference book for all with an interest in names, ...
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The Surnames of Ireland
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Ireland was one of the earliest countries to evolve a system of hereditary surnames. They came into being fairly generally in the eleventh century, and indeed a few were formed ...
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The Surnames of Scotland
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This book has now been firmly established for over fifty years as the great classic work on the origin, meaning and history of Scottish surnames ...
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