The Romance of Names (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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About the middle of the nineteenth century, the period of Archbishop Trench and Canon Taylor, began a kind of boom in works of this kind, and books on sur names are now numerous. But of all these industrious compilers one only, Bardsley, can be taken seriously. His Dictionary of English Surnames, published (oxford Press, 1901) from his notes some years after his death.

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