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, 'What's in a name'?
A good deal of intriguing information about our ancestors, in fact: where people lived, or where they hailed from, or what they looked like, their jobs, nicknames, morals, personal habits, and even important events in their lives. Here too are the origins of such revered American names as Roosevelt and Rockefeller, as well as surnames which, while they may have originated in Britain, Ireland of elsewhere, have become common-place sometimes in adapted version, in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Packed with information that goes back to Saxon times, of to the days of Celtic chieftains and Norman knights, 'Stufflebeen, Brockway and Sturt' is at once a delightful journey through our shared history and a highly readable work of ready reference.
Contents:
Introduction
A-Z Listing
Select Bibliography
