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Re: Science and Unemployment...
Sandra Russell (srussell@ix.netcom.com)
1 Jul 1995 04:52:06 GMT
In <3t1tse$h89@lo-fan.jpl.nasa.gov> johnt@haagar.jpl.nasa.gov (John
Thompson) writes:
>>What's the scoop? Is there a link between the place name and the
man's name?
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>>--Tom
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>I don't know anything about this particular case but places (both names
>and descriptions) are a common source of surnames (York, London, Marsh,
>Rivers, Lake, Field). The other big sources that I have noticed are
>occupations (Smith, Farmer, Taylor, Sawyer, Fisher) and fathers' given
names(all the *son names, like myself).
Yeah. This includes things that we forget were occupations (fletcher,
chandler, wainwright, hooper), and things that we forget were places
(Bradley= broad lee = broad meadow, Oakley, Barkley, etc)....
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