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Surnames were uncommon prior to the 12th century, and still somewhat rare into the 13th ; most European surnames were originally occupational or locational, and served to distinguish one person from another if they happened to live near one another ( e. g., two different people named John could conceivably be identified as ' John Butcher ' and ' John Chandler ').
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Surnames and were
Surnames like Limley and Cagle were of Creek and Seminole blood.
Surnames in Sweden can be traced to the 15th century, when they were first used by the Gentry ( Frälse ), i. e., priests and nobles.
The version Ó Proinntigh, which was first given by Father Woulfe in his Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall ( Surnames of the Gael and the Foreigner ) and reproduced without question by MacLysaght inter alia cannot be accepted as correct, as there were a number of well-known scribes with this name writing in Irish in the 17th and 18th centuries and all of them used the spelling Ó Pronntaigh.
Other terms were also used to describe the Border families, such as the " Riding Surnames " and the " Graynes " thereof.
Surnames were appended according to the officeholder's place of residence, and so the family name varied between Schenk von Zell, Schenk von Neuenzell, Schenk von Andeck, Schenk von Erpfingen and Schenk von Stauffenberg.
Succeeded by his son Walter, his family continued to hold Scarisbrick for centuries to come, and the historian Richard McKinley notes that " Most, and possibly all, the people named Scarisbrick found in Lancashire during the Middle Ages were members of the land-owning family " ( per The Surnames of Lancashire, English Surnames Series, IV ).
Through this, they were given Spanish surnames through Catálogo Alfabético de Apellidos or Alphabetic Catalog of Surnames.
Among its duties was the generation of a Register of Surnames which were being comprehensively studied.
Surnames were not used in that time, but apparently later in history, the name Chodzko became a surname after Christianization of Chodzko Juriewicz, father of Iwan ( Jan ) Chodkiewicz.
According to The Surnames of Ireland by Edward MacLysaght, there are three distinct septs of Muldoon: Galway ( around Uí Maine ), Clare ( whose names were generally Anglicised to Malone ), and in Co. Fermanagh where the name is most common.
Surnames were not yet necessary to distinguish one man from another.
Surnames from Philippine place names were also given by Spaniards and these include Bacolod, Basilan, and Davao.
Surnames and century
Later, children also learn the Hundred Family Surnames, a rhyming poem in lines of eight characters composed in the early Song Dynasty ( i. e. in about the 11th century ) which actually listed more than four hundred of the common surnames in ancient China.
The Alphabetical Catalog of Surnames (, ) is a book of surnames published in the Philippines and other islands of Spanish East Indies in the mid-19th century.
Surnames and rare
As Chinese family names go, Mo is relatively rare, ranked 168th in the Hundred Family Surnames.
Surnames and into
Surnames from two different languages that are combined into one: Pe-Benito ( Chinese + Spanish ), Tactacan-tumpalan ( Spanish + Tagalog ), Zobel-Roxas ( Spanish-Mexican ).
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* ANDERSON, William, The Scottish Nation ; or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland, Vol.
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Surnames and European
* Note: This is not a complete list of French Surnames, though this may also fall under European Surnames.
Surnames and surnames
" The Bǎijiāxìng ( 百家姓 ) or " Hundred Family Surnames " refers to an ancient text documenting Chinese surnames.
His numerous books on Irish surnames built upon the work of Patrick Woulfe's Irish Names and Surnames ( 1923 ) and made him well known to all those researching their family past.
Zhao is the first surname in the famous Hundred Family Surnames – the traditional list of all Chinese surnames – because it was the royal surname of the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ) when the list was compiled.
On 21 November 1849 the Spanish Governor General of the Philippine Islands, Narciso Clavería, decreed the systematic distribution of surnames and the implementation of the Spanish naming system for Filipinos and Filipinas, thereby producing the Catálogo Alfabético de Apellidos (“ Alphabetical Catalogue of Surnames ") listing Spanish, Filipino, and Hispanicised Chinese words, names, and numbers.
Surnames like Tuazon ( Eldest Grandson ), Dizon ( Second Grandson ), Samson ( Third Grandson ), Singson ( Fourth Grandson ), Gozon ( Fifth Grandson ), Lacson ( Sixth Grandson ) are examples of Hokkien words with Spanish transliterations used as surnames for some Chinese Filipinos who trace their ancestry from Chinese immigrants to the Philippines during the Spanish Colonial Period also.
Almost all Filipinos have Spanish or Spanish-sounding surnames imposed on them for taxing reasons ( See: Alphabetical Catalogue of Surnames ), and a number of them have indigenous Filipino surnames.
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