Surname Origins, Their Source and Significations

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Surname Origins,
Their Source and Significations (1875)

By Charles Wareing Bardsley, M.A.

Contents

Prefaces

To the Second Edition
To the First Edition
To the Index of Instances

Introductory Chapter
Chapter I. Patronymic Surnames
Chapter II. Local Surnames
Chapter III. Surnames of Office
Chapter IV. Surnames of Occupation (Country)
Chapter V. Surnames of Occupation (Town)

Appendix to Chapters IV. And V.

Chapter VI. Nicknames
The Alphabetical Letters appended to
the Names furnished in the text

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Surname Origins,
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Published 1875 By
Charles Wareing Bardsley, M.A.

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