David Hey

Family Names and Family History (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Family names are an essential part of everyone's personal history. The story of their evolution is integral to family history and fascinating in its own right. Formed from first names, place names, nicknames and occupations, names allow us to trace the movements of our ancestors from the middle ages to the present day. David Hey shows how, when and where families first got their names, and proves that most families stayed close to their places of origin. Settlement patterns and family groupings can be traced back towards their origin by using national and local records. Family Names and Family History tells anyone interested in tracing their own name how to set about doing so.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826435347
• Artikelnr.: 40775567

Autorenporträt

David Hey was Emeritus Professor of Local and Family History at the University of Sheffield. His books include How Our Ancestors Lived, The Oxford Guide to Family History, The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History and Family Names and Family History. He was President of the British Agricultural History Society, Chairman of the Local Population Studies Society and consultant editor for The National Archives' family history magazine, Ancestors.

David Hey was Emeritus Professor of Local History at Sheffield University and is the author of The Oxford Guide to Family History (1993).

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Preface
  I The History of Family Names
1 Names and History
2 The Normans
3 The Origins of English Family Names
4 The Development of Family Names
Stability and Change
II Tracing Surnames Back in Time
6 The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
7 Family Names in the Seventeenth Century and Earlier
III Tracing Your Own Name
8 Steps to Tracing Your Surname
9 The Most Common Surnames
10 Maps
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
General Index