Names and Naming Patterns in England, 1538-1700Clarendon Press, 1997 - 223 sider This book contains the results of the first large-scale quantitative investigation of naming practices in early modern England. Scott Smith-Bannister traces the history of the fundamentally significant human act of naming one's children during a period of great economic, social, and religious upheaval. Using in part the huge pool of names accumulated by the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structures, he sets out to show which names were most commonly used, how children came to be given these names, why they were named after godparents, parents, siblings, or saints, and how social status affected naming patterns. The chief historical significance of this research lies in the discovery of a substantial shift in naming practices in this period: away from medieval patterns of naming a child after a godparent and towards naming them after a parent. In establishing the chronology of how parents came to exercise greater choice in naming their children and over the nature of naming practices, it successfully supersedes previous scholarship on this subject. Resolutely statistical and rich in anecdote, Dr Smith-Bannister's exploration of this deeply revealing subject will have far-reaching implications for the history of the English family and culture. |
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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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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