J. Draper London
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Monday 10 May 2021 15:24:34 GMT
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J. Draper London :
1/ Hello all! I've had a few questions on this, so: yes, this is just for England.
2021-05-10 19:08:42
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megumi4beauty :
Imagine people tracing their family tree trying to go back as far as they can and it stops around 1400 because they don’t have last names
2021-05-10 15:31:03
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queef :
Unrelated but related at the same time this is why we know Tophs last name and not the rest of the avatar gang.. Because she was rich and royal 
2021-05-10 18:13:09
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user1121 :
In Norway a very common surname (Ødegård) was taken by people who took over abandoned houses from the black plague
2021-05-10 16:36:37
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xo.denizz :
fun fact, during the Ottoman Empire we didn’t have surnames until its collapsed in 1918. It’s been difficult trying to find ancestors for this reason.
2021-05-10 18:22:54
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Dude :
What I’m curious is why people got middle names, because it seems like it’s an English thing. I’m from Quebec and nobody has a middle name
2021-05-10 17:13:07
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Robert Summers :
Am I right in also thinking that the first surnames of the common people were named after their professions?
2021-05-10 15:58:03
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Andreas :
Here in Norway it is common to be named after the name of your farm house, even if you weren’t related to the owners by blood you’d still share names.
2021-06-10 17:06:05
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Wandrews :
it's funny, how the reason for adding names was not that there were too many people, but that there were suddenly not enough people.
2021-05-10 18:36:45
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Mia-Skye :
Did you notice how this is similar to what is going on in the customer service workforce? I assume it is going on other places in the world but in
2021-05-10 17:59:25
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Michael McBride :
I had no idea! This is so cool
2021-05-10 16:18:46
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Sad panda girl :
Ok ok but did the landowners post petty signs like “no harvest bc no one wants to work?” Before they figured out paying more?😂
2021-05-10 15:57:39
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Aleksa :
last name is so rare there's only seven of us in the world my family in America and my family in Moldova so that's fun
2021-05-10 18:57:27
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S :
In my country surnames are ESSENTIAL everybody had them for thousands of years and some of them are also mentioned in our holy book!
2021-05-10 18:32:33
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Joaquín Bringas Adme :
Here in Spain, we get the first surname from our father, the other from our mother, and women do not change theirs for their husbamds'. Sadly, this is
2021-05-10 16:52:16
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Viewer131 :
Why would they need a full Harvey’s if everyone was dead? And how does that explain trade names like Hooper, cooper, smith
2021-05-10 23:25:42
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user3009391305381 :
And suddenly it makes a lot more sense that my maiden name means "from Wales." I'm guessing they didn't get that name *in* Wales 😁
2021-05-10 17:22:43
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GreenMoose :
My surname comes from pig farmers by a river, then at some point one of them was a crusader and got given a village 🤷
2021-05-10 15:56:51
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heenabaneena :
this is why my family can only trace our swedish lineage so far, because our surname was Olson meaning Ollie's son. we never found Ollie
2021-05-30 14:03:30
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Art.of.Nothing :
Amazing how many english surnames are what the people did, Carpenter, Butcher, Taylor, Smith, Fletcher, Baker, etc.
2021-06-06 07:06:40
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