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English surnames and their trade origins

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rze99rze99 Frets: 2261

There are loads here I didn’t know. Eg. Baxter is Baker.  Many others that are illuminating. 


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  • HAL9000HAL9000 Frets: 9552
    Apparently most British surnames come from trades (eg Cooper, Fletcher), physical attributes (Armstrong), or locations (Ramsbottom, Hill).
    I play guitar because I enjoy it rather than because I’m any good at it
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  • eh?

    • Clark - Clerk
    • Clerk - Clergyman, cleric
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  • HAL9000 said:
    Apparently most British surnames come from trades (eg Cooper, Fletcher), physical attributes (Armstrong), or locations (Ramsbottom, Hill).
    Apart from a lot of Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish surnames which are mainly patronymic
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  • octatonicoctatonic Frets: 33725
    My friend, George Motherfucker, has always wondered where his came from.
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  • I knew a bloke called Tony Glasscock, you could always see him coming!

    He got fed up of people taking the piss and he changed it eventually. He's called Alan now.


    Thanks, I'm here all week  :#
    Only a Fool Would Say That.
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  • rocktronrocktron Frets: 806
    HAL9000 said:
    Apparently most British surnames come from trades (eg Cooper, Fletcher), physical attributes (Armstrong), or locations (Ramsbottom, Hill).
    Fast forward to 3:23 for Ritchie Faulkner talking about his ancestors being Royal Falconers:-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi9B_pvBX7A
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  • Mason means 'bricklayer' rather than 'mason'? Yeah, right...

    We're not looking here at someone who knows their subject. It's just an American bloke who has looked up a few words on Wikipedia.
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  • HAL9000HAL9000 Frets: 9552
    HAL9000 said:
    Apparently most British surnames come from trades (eg Cooper, Fletcher), physical attributes (Armstrong), or locations (Ramsbottom, Hill).
    Apart from a lot of Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish surnames which are mainly patronymic
    You’re right. I probably meant English surnames. I was just repeating something I’d heard quite a few years back. Happy to be corrected.
    I play guitar because I enjoy it rather than because I’m any good at it
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 14037
    tFB Trader
    Is it true all the names like Peterson, Patterson, etc mean son of Peter etc
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  • slackerslacker Frets: 2216
    My names origin is the Latin for gravedigger.
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  • HAL9000 said:
    Apparently most British surnames come from trades (eg Cooper, Fletcher), physical attributes (Armstrong), or locations (Ramsbottom, Hill).
    Apart from a lot of Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish surnames which are mainly patronymic
    Well, there is Jones the Steam, Jones the Bread, Jones the Coal, etc. ;)
    Some folks like water, some folks like wine.
    My feedback thread is here.
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13929
    edited February 2020
    Used to know chap called Brian Allcock. We used to call him no balls.


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  • Used to know chap called Brian Allcock. We used to call him no balls.
    He missed a trick there. Should have gone into plumbing with a name like B.Allcock
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  • proggyproggy Frets: 5827
    Virginia Bottomley's family must have been in the porn industry I reckon.
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  • SassafrasSassafras Frets: 30273
    That Dan Burrows chap's got too much time on his hands.
    I've never heard of the majority of those names.
    Not saying they don't exist but they're not very common at all.
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  • p90foolp90fool Frets: 31370
    Sassafras said:
    That Dan Burrows chap's got too much time on his hands.
    I've never heard of the majority of those names.
    Not saying they don't exist but they're not very common at all.
    Really? You should get out more, we're having the Peregrinator-Supercargos over for lunch later.
    :)
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  • Supercargo - Officer on merchant ship who is in charge of cargo and the commercial concerns of the ship.

    What a surname. 
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 14037
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    Used to know chap called Brian Allcock. We used to call him no balls.
    A number of years ago a rep in our trade, think it was for Beyer Mics was called Roger Mycock - TRUE 

    An old hairdresser in Derby was call Richard Head (think about it)  - He preferred to call it Heed
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  • I know someone called Cocks. I expect most people changed their spelling as soon as "X" was invented. He has not. He's a retired school master, so I think as well as more than one cock, he probably has more than two balls.
    Some folks like water, some folks like wine.
    My feedback thread is here.
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  • ESBlondeESBlonde Frets: 3576
    George 'Zoot' Moneys father was one time bank manager at Lloyds in Felixstowe.

    I like the history of Surnames, Likewise place names intigue me.

    'Sluts hole lane' is in Norfolk, it was originally a sluice in olde english but got changed over time.

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