The Oxford dictionary of family names in Britain and Ireland

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Cover; The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland: VOLUME 1; Copyright; Editors and contributors; Contents; Introduction; 1. What is FaNBI?; 1.1 Selection of entries; 1.2 Order of contents for entries; 1.2.1 MAIN ENTRIES AND VARIANTS; 1.2.2 FREQUENCIES; 1.2.3 MAIN LOCATIONS; 1.2.4 EXPLANATIONS; 1.2.5 FURTHER INFORMATION; 1.2.6 EARLY BEARERS; 1.2.7 REFERENCES; 1.3 Philology and genealogy; 2. What is a family name?; 2.1 Monogenetic and polygenetic family names; 2.2 Family names and genetics; 2.3 Statistics of population and family names. 3. Origins and development of family names in England; 3.1 The beginnings of family names in England; 3.2 Linguistic and cultural origins of English names; 3.3 The typology of English family names; 3.3.1 LOCATIVE NAMES; 3.3.1.1 Toponymic names; 3.3.1.2 Ethnic and regional names; 3.3.1.3 Topographic names; 3.3.2 RELATIONSHIP NAMES; 3.3.2.1 Old English personal names; 3.3.2.2 Old Scandinavian personal names; 3.3.2.3 Anglo-Norman French personal names; 3.3.2.4 Pet forms of Norman French and Middle English personal names; 3.3.2.5 Names ending in -s and -son; 3.3.3 OCCUPATIONAL NAMES. 3.3.4 STATUS NAMES; 3.3.5 NICKNAMES; 3.4 The development of hereditary family names in England; 3.5 The evolution of modern variants; 3.6 The geography of English family names; 4. Family names in Scotland; 4.1 Family names in Scots-speaking Scotland; 5. Family names in Ireland and Gaelic-speaking Scotland; 5.1 The background of Gaelic; 5.2 Gaelic in Ireland and Scotland; 5.3 Gaelic genealogy and characteristic name-types; 5.4 Literature on Gaelic names; 6. Manx family names; 7. Welsh family names; 8. Cornish family names; 9. Family names in the Channel Islands. 10. Huguenot and Walloon family names in Britain and Ireland; 11. Jewish family names in Britain and Ireland; 11.1 Ashkenazim and Sephardim; 11.2 Jewish languages in Europe; 11.3 History of Jews in England, Scotland, and Ireland; 11.3.1 FROM EXPULSION TO EMANCIPATION; 11.3.2 JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN THE TH AND TH CENTURIES; 11.4 Typology of Jewish family names; 11.4.1 JEWISH RELATIONSHIP NAMES; 11.4.2 JEWISH LOCATIVE NAMES; 11.4.3 ORNAMENTAL NAMES, HANDOUT NAMES, AND OTHER KINDS OF NICKNAME; 11.4.4 JEWISH OCCUPATIONAL NAMES; 11.4.5 JEWISH RELIGIOUS STATUS NAMES. 11.5 Jewish names in eastern Europe and beyond the sphere of German influence; 11.6 Jewish names in Italy; 11.7 Israeli Jewish names; 12. Family names of recent immigrants in Britain and Ireland; 13. Chinese family names in Britain; 13.1 A brief history of Chinese surnames; 13.2 Typology of Chinese family names; 13.3 Chinese population movement; 13.4 Chinese dialects and their romanization; 13.5 Multiple origins of Chinese family names in the form used in the West; 13.6 Records of Chinese family names; 13.7 Previous work on Chinese family names; 14. Family names from the Indian subcontinent. 14.1 Linguistic preliminaries concerning family names in India