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A Book of Welsh Names
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Our Price: AU$29.50 Inc GST
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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$29.50 Inc GST
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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$41.95 Inc GST
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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 Inc GST
Out of Print
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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$29.50 Inc GST
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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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Concerning Some Scottish Surnames
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Our Price: AU$29.50 Inc GST
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The attempt to define the meaning, origin, and tradition of Scottish surnames has long been a popular pursuit. During the 19th century, romantic writers tended to define surnames by reference to family tradition or to the phonetic meaning of parts or all of a name. Innes, however, held to a territorial origin ...
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Cornish Family Names
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Our Price: AU$44.95 Inc GST
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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 Place-Names Explained
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Our Price: AU$46.50 Inc GST
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A comprehensive study of English place-names - their linguistic roots, historical connections and meanings. Includes a county-by-county guide to the main place-names and their origins.
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Family Names and Their Story
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Our Price: AU$29.50 Inc GST
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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 Inc GST
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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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First Name Variants
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Our Price: AU$19.00 Inc GST
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When searching for records of particular individuals in original documents or indexes most researchers would be familiar with an Elizabeth appearing as a Betty or Bessy. They may be less ...
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Genealogy and Surnames, with Some Heraldic and Biographical Notes
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Our Price: AU$29.50 Inc GST
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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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Highland Personal Names
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Our Price: AU$29.50 Inc GST
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This is a collection of articles which first appeared in the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, all of which discuss some aspect of Highland traditions regarding given names ...
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How Do You Say ..? Places in Cornwall, Location, Pronunciation, Meaning
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Our Price: AU$30.50 Inc GST
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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 Inc GST
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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$35.50 Inc GST
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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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Matheson's Special Report on Surnames in Ireland
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Our Price: AU$16.01 Inc GST
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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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Our Price: AU$31.96 Inc GST
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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 Inc GST
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Written by Harry Alfred Long (Glasgow School Board), and published in 1883. This was a popular monograph on the origin and history of the nomenclature of the present and former times ...
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Personal and Family Names
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Our Price: AU$29.50 Inc GST
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This extended study of personal and family names provides an account of the origin and meaning of literally thousands of names used or found throughout the British Isles. It begins with chapters on the origin and formation of words, then moves on to personal names, Biblical names, birth names, names of women ...
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Place Names of Our Land: A South Australian Anthology
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Our Price: AU$59.50 Inc GST
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This volume is the latest edition of Geoff's 'Manning's Place Names of South Australia'. Now retitled to 'Place Names of Our Land' this has to be the bible of South Australian place names, past and present. With over forty years of research, the place names and their meaning now fill over 1400 pages ...
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References to English Surnames in 1601
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Our Price: AU$20.00 Inc GST
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An index giving about 19,650 references to surnames contained in the printed parish registers of 778 English parishes during the first year of the 17th century. A useful reference guide for family historians.
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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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Our Price: AU$38.95 Inc GST
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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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Our Price: AU$29.95 Inc GST
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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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Our Price: AU$43.51 Inc GST
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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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Some Anglicised Surnames in Ireland
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This 64 page book, was originally published 1923. The primary purpose of this work is to provide an alphabetical guide to English names used in Ireland which have been altered or anglicized from their Gaelic original. For example, Adams is originally from Mac Adaim, who are described as being a branch from the MacGregors ...
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Stufflebeem, Brockway and Sturt: The Origins of Our Surnames
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Our Price: AU$34.00 Inc GST
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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, DNA and Family History
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Our Price: AU$45.00 Inc GST
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This book combines linguistic and historical approaches with the latest techniques of DNA analysis and show the insights these offer for every kind of genealogical research. The book will be welcomed by all ...
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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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Our Price: AU$42.00 Inc GST
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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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Our Price: AU$49.95 Inc GST
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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 Handbook: A Guide to Family Name Research in the 21st Century
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Our Price: AU$39.95 Inc GST
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Every surname has its own story to tell, and a surname study is a natural complement to family history research. The study of surnames has been revolutionised in the last decade with the increasing availability of online resources, and it is now easier than ever before to explore the history, evolution, distribution and meaning of your family name.
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