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A familiar family name can preserve a medieval nickname, a parent's given name or an occupation. Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley examines these connections through English records, tracing the ways everyday speech became inherited identity. His revised 1875 edition groups related names together and defends the importance of names derived from mothers as well as fathers. Examples such as Marriott and Emmett bring his arguments down to individual spellings and documentary entries.
The discussion of nicknames turns from records to the social habits behind them. Bardsley considers how remarks about appearance, temperament or status could attach to a person and remain in a family long after their original force had faded. Written as an accessible introduction to his larger research, the book offers readers interested in family names a historical account of naming customs, with frequent examples and an openly argumentative voice.
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