Names and Naming Patterns in England, 1538-1700Clarendon Press, 1997 - 223 sider This is a study of names given to children born in England between 1538 and 1700. Drawing on statistical data from forty English parishes, Scott looks at the most commonly used names, how children came to be given these names, why they were often named after their godparents and parents, and how social status affected the names chosen. |
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Names Naming Patterns and Godparents | 35 |
Naming and the Family | 59 |
A Comparative Study | 81 |
Personal Names and the English Poor 15701700 | 98 |
Names Naming Patterns and the Peerage | 127 |
Personal Names in England | 167 |
Some Conclusions | 183 |
A A Test to Measure the Degree of Standardization in | 189 |
The Standard Forms of Alternative Spellings of Names | 201 |
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Names and Naming Patterns in England, 1538-1700 Scott Smith-Bannister Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 1997 |
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Alice Anne areas Aston Rowant baptism baptized in forty biblical names Birchington Bletchingdon boys baptized Burton Fleming Chester child children named Christian Names common names Cuttlestone decade Diary E. A. Wrigley Edward Elizabeth evidence example Exeter father female poor feminized names forenames forty parishes given gentry girls baptized godfather godparenthood godparents Harleian Society Hearth Tax History Horsham husbandmen incidence of name-sharing Joan Ledbury male poor Margaret Margery Mary Mean incidence Mean rank name-grouping name-sharing practices names and naming names given naming children Naming Patterns naming practices non-scriptural saints Nottinghamshire Offlowe Oxford Oxfordshire parent-child name-sharing parents Parish Register paternal kin peerage peers period Pirehill practice of naming Proportion of boys proportion of children Proportion of girls Puritan Ralph Josselin rank-order correlation regions relative number role scriptural saints Seisdon seventeenth century social groups social status Spelsbury surnames Susanna TABLE Thomasin traditional English names whilst William Withycombe yeomen