This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. HISTORY OF ENGLISH SURNAMES, SINCE THE NORMAN CONQUEST. HATEVER may be advanced in favour of an earlier adoption of family designations or Surnames in particular cases, it is certain that the practice of making the second name of an individual stationary, and transmitting it to descendants ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. HISTORY OF ENGLISH SURNAMES, SINCE THE NORMAN CONQUEST. HATEVER may be advanced in favour of an earlier adoption of family designations or Surnames in particular cases, it is certain that the practice of making the second name of an individual stationary, and transmitting it to descendants, came gradually into common use during the eleventh and three following centuries. By the middle of the twelfth it began, in the estimation of some, to be essential that persons of rank should bear some designation in addition to the baptismal name. We have an instance of this in the wealthy heiress of the powerful Baron Fitz-Hamon's making the want of a surname in Robert, natural' son of King Henry the First, an objection to his marriage with her. The lady is represented as saying: fit inere to me great dftame, Co ftabe a lortt fottfcouten hte tfoa name!* when the monarch, to remedy the defect, gave him the surname of Fitz-Roy; a designation which has been given at several subsequent periods to the illegitimate progeny of our kings. * Robert of Gloucester. This will remind the reader of Juvenal-- " tanquam habeas tria nomim." v. 127. The unsettled state of surnames in those early times renders it a difficult matter to trace the pedigree of any family beyond the thirteenth century. In Cheshire, a county remarkable for the number of its resident families of great antiquity, it was very usual for younger branches of a family, laying aside the name of their father, to take their name from the place of their residence, and thus in three descents as many surnames are found in the same family. This remark may be forcibly illustrated by reference to the early pedigree of the family of Fitz-Hugh, which name did not settle down as a fixed...
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