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Originally Posted by seanliddelow
Hi fellow IISers
A week ago I went to my local libary and I borrowed a book called
"The Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames". If any one has English ancestry in their last name and they want to know where that name originated from or what it means just post in this thread and I will write back as quickly as I can. The book has 16,000 surnames in it so I may be able to find most.
Sean
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You would be interested in "One Name" studies then. That's taking surnames and studying their derivation. It's a very interesting area of reaearch and you can find out a lot of very interesting things. Ties in a lot with genealogy.