Canada. There were early Shepherds at Harbour Grace in Newfoundland, beginning with Francis Shepheard from the Channel Island of Jersey. He may have been trading at Harbour Grace as early as 1705. A later Francis Shepherd reported in 1775 that his family had been living there “for upwards of...
25,000 in the UK (most numerous in London) 66,000 in America (most numerous in Texas) 15,000 elsewhere (most numerous in Australia) Simmons and Like Surnames Patronymic surnames can be with either the “-son” or the shorter “s” suffix to the first name. The “s” suffix is more...
d. Les Fleurs de L’Orient.[5]This richly documented website which is dedicated to the Farhi family history has also a genealogy section with thousands of surnames and has also an advanced search option by birth and death place. e. The Circumcisions Register of Maatuk Dabby.[6] Maatuk D...
Wales. It was the Welsh longbow archer who was instrumental in the English victories of Crecy and Agincourt and hence many fletchers at that time came from south Wales. There were references to Fletcher as a surname in Cardiff during the 16th century when surnames were beginning to take root ...
All names beginning in Fitz –Fitzgerald,Fitzpatrick, Fitzsimonsand so on, are of Norman origin. The Fitz is simply a mispronunciation of the French “fils”, meaning “son of”, and its use implies a family with an aristocratic background. ActorBarry Fitzgerald(left)was of Norman-Irish sto...
(to show marital union/commitment and family solidarity and/or to mark the beginning of a new stage of life) or as a pragmatic means of avoiding confusion over disparate surnames within a family unit (for the UK, see Thwaites2013; Wilson2009). These findings support arguments by scholars ...
By the time David Sassoon passed away in 1942 he had amassed about 1,300 items in his library. Sadly the collection was dispersed, sold at a number of Sotheby auctions beginning with one in Zurich in 1975. Rachel and Alfred Sassoon. Rachel and Alfred were the children of Sassoon David Sas...
This article presents a comprehensive exploration of Vietnamese surnames, with a specific focus on those attributed to the Kinh people, from an onomastic perspective. Beginning with a broad overview of general studies on Vietnamese names, the paper introduces the prevailing name structure, which fol...