Many Anglicized their surnames to better assimilate into U. culture, or simplified them because their surnames were difficult for Americans to spell or pronounce. In this district where limited variety of appellations prevails the common names are Davies, Edwards, Harris, James, Jones, Morris, Phillips, Roberts, Stephens, and Williams, most especially Jones and Williams. In what we may call the main part of England, extending from Kent in the southeast westward through Hampshire and northward through the Midlands, patronyms are common but not highly frequent, and show more variety than they do in Wales. Part of many German surnames Crossword Clue Answer: VON.
Each new generation seems less interested in keeping to the patterns, expecially acting as head of the house and making proper marriages in the same class (marriage to a commoner means loss of succession rights and the weakening of family links). Various other appellations are shared with the Scots — for instance, Bell, Crawford, Graham, Grant, Marshall, and Russell. Although the average citizen is usually familiar only with the minority of "jet set" nobles whose names get into the newspapers, a title still connotates a certain raspectability in West Germany. Thus, a Joseph Heyer may have unwittingly become Joseph Hire. Done with Part of many German surnames? Another distinction might be drawn between the areas on the basis of the time when hereditary surnames gained general use. Occupations (the last name Miller tells you the person is descended from millers). Many other nobles, especially the large number of refugees who lost property and castles in the eastern part of Germany through postwar Communist takeovers, have successfully adapted to modern West German society, which is considered one of Western Europe's least class‐conscious. Even more important is marriage, since for many of the nobles keeping tradition is synonymous with maintaining blood ties. So a Polish surname such as Ziolkowski, for example, might have been shortened to Zill. Other times, illiterate immigrants didn't realize a clerk, census worker or other official had misspelled their surname. How much more than half cannot be stated exactly, but, allowing for variations and special circumstances affecting certain names, it seems a fair statement that American family nomenclature is 55 per cent English. Probably not more than half of these have been introduced into the United States, but this is not surprising, as many of them are of very limited use in the mother country.
This is a bold outline of the situation: —. In America, of course, the appellations from the several regions are mingled together, but the relative influences can be distinguished. Many other nobles have resisted this step as long as they can since most believe that its effect is deadening. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. THE portion of Great Britain south of the Scottish border, variously referred to as England, and England and Wales, is the homeland of a large proportion of Americans, and hence the place of origin of a large proportion of American surnames. For additional clues from the today's mini puzzle please use our Master Topic for nyt mini crossword OCT 01 2022. The corresponding boundary on the north, which sets off the northern part of England, is a line from Liverpool to Hulk. The north distinguishes itself from the main area by a tendency toward names also favored in Scotland, and especially toward patronyms ending in son, which have slight favor in central England and none in Wales or Devonia. 45 billion people, or 18. Rising costs, which have long since done away with aristocratic finery and armies of bewigged servants, are now making it difficult to maintain the castles that a majority of the high nobility occupy and use as sanctuaries for tradition. Toponymics (home region — e. g., Monte is Portuguese for mountain).
Another illustration: Hutchings is characteristic of the southwest, Hutchins of the main part of England, Hutchinson of the north, and Hutchison of Scotland. Part of the difference between the 55 per cent and the percentage based on blood is accounted for by Negro name use carried over from the slaveholders of the old South. Yet there's no doubt about which surname is the most popular in the world: Wang. In the remainder of England much greater variety occurs. "Even in Stuttgart, " Prince Wilhelm complained, "a rich industrialist has more prestige than a noble. Enslaved people were often forced to take the surnames of their subjugators, which is why many Blacks in the U. S. have European surnames such as Williams, Davis or Jackson. By absorption of the p from the 'ap' there derives the name Powell. Mang and his Xin dynasty took away power from the Liu family, who were successors of the Han dynasty, so many royal families adopted this surname to protect their lives and wealth. There are too many of them; many are included which are characteristic of the country but not peculiar to it; and others have English character without English heritage.
Some nobles complain, however, that a mere title is not as useful in opening doors as it was 15 years ago. In it the nobility have maintained their positions, if not their influence, in diplomacy and in the army, where they gravitate to the tank corps, with its cavalry tradition. Negroes with English names||8||40|. Agriculture remains the main source of wealth for most families, and the nobles play a major role in farm organizations and policymaking. Generally speaking, for example, Davies and David denote ancestry in WTales or near by, Davis in England proper, Davison in the north of England, and Davidson in Scotland. In Cornwall and Devon, where the special characteristics of nomenclature are most pronounced, a good 40 per cent of the people bear appellations peculiar to the locality and individually infrequent. Of the half-dozen surnames having the greatest numbers of bearers in England and Wales as a whole, neither Smith, Jones, Taylor, Davies, nor Brown is familiar in Cornwall or Devonshire; Williams is the only one of the six locally popular. Prince Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, an energetic man of 51 who is a sports pilot and, like almost all the nobility, an avid hunter, says his standard of living is equal to that of a business executive. The boundary line between Devonia and the main part of England is approximately one from the city of Gloucester to that of Southampton.
Patronymics (names that tell who your father or ancestors are — Johnson literally means John's son). And in Mexico, people are given two surnames: the father's surname followed by the mother's (for example, Catalina González Martínez. ) Of the four nomenclatural regions, northern England is the one best represented here. From there, the name greatly proliferated throughout the centuries. Moreover, England herself has had immigrants from the Continent and has passed on to us some names which became by Anglicization exactly what they would have become by Americanization. So too an Aarons becomes a Harris, and a Levinsky a Lewis. They became customary first in the major part of England and soon thereafter in the southwest, and were the prevailing means of identification there in the sixteenth century at the latest, but were not universally used in the north until the eighteenth century or in Wales until the nineteenth. Genealogy offers the only proof of the antecedents of rare names. They have also entered business, finding positions on executive boards, and started newspapers and gotten into politics. We listed below the last known answer for this clue featured recently at Nyt mini crossword on OCT 01 2022. No one can keep in mind all of the 35, 000 appellations from which EnglishAmerican nomenclature draws. Thus Germans named Moritz and French named Maurice come to be known as Morris, a typically Welsh patronym. The only political action directed against them since World War II was a wave of land reforms in the late nineteen‐forties, designed to accommodate thousands of war refugees, when holdings were reduced by 15 to 20 per cent.
Despite all of these complexities, or sometimes because of them, certain surnames dominate various corners of the globe. The offset is to be found in an increased representation of the coastal counties of England, including the Devonian group. Examples of this sort could be multiplied; note one more from the appellations of descriptive type, little favored in Wales: of the Read-Reed-Reid group, Read is preferred in England proper, Reed in the southwest and again in the north, Reid in Scotland.
He managed to pack some of the castle's valuable furnishings into a truck and flee. Such attitudes mainly prevail in the southern rural regions, not in big industrial centers in the north. Changes are commonly suggested by the sound of the appellations, but meanings or supposed meanings play some part. The rest of the turreted castle, with its countless hunting trophies, family paintings and stocks of old armor has been opened as a museum because maintaining it privately was impossible. In English-speaking cultures, it's long been the custom for women to change their birth last name to their husband's upon marriage. Baylor and Caylor appear to be English, but they are really Beiler and Koehler in disguise. There is little resentment of the aristocracy as a class. Patronyms form the body of Welsh nomenclature and commonly end in s. These and other patronyms similarly constructed prevail in the main area and to some extent in the Devonian peninsula, but a large proportion of the people in these two areas employ surnames derived from the characteristics, activities, and abodes of their ancestors. More specific place names such as Bradford, Bradbury, Burton, Kirkham, and Kirkland, most of which have only a few bearers, are also used. The reason Wang tops all other Chinese last names may be traced to the Xin dynasty, which began in 9 C. E. and was headed by Emperor Wang Mang.
Most Welsh surnames are patronyms, but not all employ the final s. Owen, Howell, and Humphrey do not necessarily add s. Very common are George, Lloyd, Morgan, and Pierce, which lack it (but Pierce was originally Piers). The concept of head of the house, which entails maintaining traditions, arbitrating marriages and family settlements, and running the business is also vital to the old‐line nobles. There have been times in Ireland, for example, when the use of English surnames was compelled by law. These various patronyms generally end in s. Besides, many other types of names find favor. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit. He administers the family holdings, including a local steel plants farms and a lumbering Operation, from the giant Sigmaringen Castle, but he lives in a smaller country house nearby. The English (including the Welsh) are by far the largest element in the population of the United States because of their share in early migration, but American nomenclature has become more largely English than even the English share in our immigration would indicate. In case the clue doesn't fit or there's something wrong please contact us! While "well" used to mean staying in the high nobility, the rules have become so flexible that, Prince Wilhelm says, the daughter of a count or a baron would be acceptable. The people of the Devonian peninsula make little use of any of t hese names, but they do use the related Davey, which also has some use in England proper.
Americans who are English in paternal blood||32|. Duke Karl, also has a public life of sorts, appearing frequently at official receptions in Stuttgart, where the family once ruled, and other public events. In this area, variety, which is considerable near Liverpool and Hull, diminishes northward, approaching the condition prevailing in Scotland, where it has been reliably estimated that one hundred and fifty surnames account for almost half of the population. Although it is probable that slightly less than one third of Americans are English in paternal blood, more than half of our name use is English.
Hereford and Shropshire are the other counties where Welsh names are especially popular; Cheshire, although a border county, is only moderately under the spell of the Welsh, as are some other counties of England.
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