tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post2736432662843061186..comments2024-03-29T15:04:20.549+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: The meaning of British surnames - Ancestry.comHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-45213322369249772082018-06-19T13:19:31.525+10:002018-06-19T13:19:31.525+10:00Thanks Ms Pie
you have come to the right place:) ...Thanks Ms Pie<br /><br />you have come to the right place:) Surnamedb said that Pie, Pye, Pyman and Pyer is of early medieval English origin. Firstly it can be a nickname for a cheeky, talkative person (from magpie). Or the name may be a metonymic occupational surname for a baker of pies etc etc. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to develop, often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-25382140248124696132018-06-19T09:43:11.309+10:002018-06-19T09:43:11.309+10:00Researching the origins of surnames is fascinating...Researching the origins of surnames is fascinating. Especially when it is an obscure one.CherryPiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11788084724907992076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-17657770548843756122018-06-17T10:14:53.051+10:002018-06-17T10:14:53.051+10:00Parnassus
Agreed. I suspect that the meanings sur...Parnassus<br /><br />Agreed. I suspect that the meanings surnames do not come to mind unless we are concentrating on them in EVERY language. It is something you were simply born with. But when my children were born, and when all our friends and relatives were having babies, we talked a great deal about first names. Who would the baby be named after? What did that name mean? Would the child like the name we chose?<br /><br />I only started thinking about surnames when my father had his adoption papers released later on. Which surname did he take and why? What did the names mean?Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-48950434785281582222018-06-17T10:06:37.842+10:002018-06-17T10:06:37.842+10:00Findmypast
Thank you. Until university, I didn...Findmypast<br /><br />Thank you. Until university, I didn't meet any Smiths, Jones, Williams, Browns and Johnsons etc. At my school, after the war, everyone was a Goldman, Hirsch, Slonim, Berkovitz or Cohen. The problem now is that once families started anglicising their surnames, it became harder to trace their origins. When the Berkovitz family became Burke, might their surname have been a patronymic from the Yiddish first name Berke? the place where the family lived - Burgh in Suffolk? the tree birch? or something Norwegian?<br />Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-58798117789457083222018-06-17T05:36:55.077+10:002018-06-17T05:36:55.077+10:00Hello Hels, My own surname is a common one, but o...Hello Hels, My own surname is a common one, but only by coincidence--I am not related to others with this name outside my direct family. In Chinese, most surnames are also words with common meanings, but when used as surnames one thinks of them without their attached meaning, but rather just as a name. In English, similarly, if a name has an obvious meaning, like Green, Cooper, Stevenson, etc., the meanings of those words do not come to mind unless we are concentrating on it.<br />--JimParnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-80813556953886341932018-06-16T21:17:36.638+10:002018-06-16T21:17:36.638+10:00What can Findmypast tell you about your surname?
S...What can Findmypast tell you about your surname?<br />Search our database to cross-reference all our records and discover what your surname reveals about your family history.<br /><br />The most popular surnames in Our British records are:<br />Smith, Jones, Williams, Brown, Johnson, Taylor, Wilson, Miller, Davis, Thomas, White, Thompson, Jackson, Moore, Martin, Evans, Walker, Clark, Anderson, Robinson, Hall, Wright, Roberts, Harris, Green, Lewis, Davies, Hill, Wood, Allen and King.<br />Findmypasthttps://www.findmypast.co.uk/surnamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-23039533445176153272018-06-16T15:55:26.208+10:002018-06-16T15:55:26.208+10:00Anon,
That is so true. My in-laws lived in German...Anon,<br /><br />That is so true. My in-laws lived in Germany, then Czechoslovakia and finally Hungary, before moving to Australia. And that was just in the 20th century!<br /><br />My own dad's family name, Ulman, meant either that the family came from Ulm in Baden-Wurttemburg or it was a patronymic surname from the first name Ullrich. Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-10535486530174434922018-06-16T15:37:22.363+10:002018-06-16T15:37:22.363+10:00Andrew
Ancestry.com kept talking about English su...Andrew<br /><br />Ancestry.com kept talking about English surnames, not British surnames. They DID add a Scottish paragraph but it was almost peripheral to the main thrust of their research.<br />This was strange, since the Scottish diaspora has always been huge.<br /><br />Good on you for finding your dad's family name.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-27388555328941253842018-06-16T15:31:46.179+10:002018-06-16T15:31:46.179+10:00Hilary
Most people know about their parents and ...Hilary <br /><br />Most people know about their parents and grandparents, but few know their family history in earlier generations. That is probably why we love programmes like Find My Family and Who Do You Think You Are?Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-57731504104504493922018-06-16T12:20:34.582+10:002018-06-16T12:20:34.582+10:00My mother's name was Stern which could have me...My mother's name was Stern which could have meant star in German or serious in English. People moved around Europe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-31918803809004558142018-06-16T09:02:39.646+10:002018-06-16T09:02:39.646+10:00I already know the meaning of my name. It is in th...I already know the meaning of my name. It is in the Scottish ancestral list. I don't usually think much about surnames. Interesting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-32548494137045140202018-06-16T07:02:19.351+10:002018-06-16T07:02:19.351+10:00Hi Hels - it's always fascinated me ... names ...Hi Hels - it's always fascinated me ... names tell us so many things be it of people, or places or landscape ... lovely to read and remind me of home! Cheers HilaryHilary Melton-Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17596532480645510678noreply@blogger.com