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The Common Room / Re: Confused - is BNA available on FindMyPast?
« on: Friday 07 February 25 01:38 GMT (UK)  »
So, what is the relative cost of a BNA subscription (for a year, say), versus a FindMyPast subscription giving access to the same content?

I don’t know the exact figures, but it is something to think about now that the 1921 is on Anc, for me, anyway.  I don’t use FindMyPast much otherwise; I should have a good look at what else they have there.  I believe my subscription goes until October.

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The Common Room / Re: Confused - is BNA available on FindMyPast?
« on: Friday 07 February 25 00:38 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you, Isabel.  Sounds a bit beyond my technical capabilities. 

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The Common Room / Re: Germans in London
« on: Friday 07 February 25 00:37 GMT (UK)  »
I must say I have learned quite a bit from this thread, so the original poster's intent is really not that important, is it?

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The Common Room / Re: Confused - is BNA available on FindMyPast?
« on: Thursday 06 February 25 19:36 GMT (UK)  »
I should have been more specific - is there any way to copy the text, rather than the image, as there is on BNA?

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The Common Room / Re: Confused - is BNA available on FindMyPast?
« on: Thursday 06 February 25 17:31 GMT (UK)  »
Just wondering if it is possible to copy and paste a newspaper article as I was able to on the BNA?  It would save a lot of time retyping everything.  I did look at it but couldn't see a way to do that.

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The Common Room / Re: Confused - is BNA available on FindMyPast?
« on: Thursday 06 February 25 15:37 GMT (UK)  »
Just used FindMyPast for BNA, and found it very easy.  Found out why one of my relatives was living as wife with her brother-in-law in several censuses.  Her first husband beat her.  She took her sister's place (who was still living) in the household as "wife" in 1911 and 1921.

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The Common Room / Re: Germans in London
« on: Thursday 06 February 25 12:06 GMT (UK)  »
"Dickens is an English surname originating from the name Dick, the diminutive of Richard, stemmed with the patronymic termination ens, meaning belonging to, or the son of. "

Can't find any link to a Dutch name?

Wouldn't a diminutive take the form Richards or Richardson ? The frequency of Dickens is low and what exactly is his fascination with those 3/4 syllable surnames ? What point is he trying to make by using them ?

PS His first name Charles is Karel in Dutch. Hence the choice Christmas Carol ?


A diminutive is a shortened or pet form of a name…you are confusing it with a patronymic which denotes “son of”, such as Richards or Richardson.  In southern England just an added “s” was more commonly used than “son” added, which was more prevalent in the north. 
Apparently the English have always had trouble with their r’s”, the original Germanic sound was much harsher and sounded at the back of the throat - leading to Dick for Richard (also centuries ago most likely pronounced as Rick-hard), Dob for Robert, and Dodge for Roger.
I have the surname Hollands in my tree, and it is a patronymic for Roland.  Considering the many surnames that have come Roland (Holland, Rawlings, Rawlinson, Rolls, etc) the given name must have been quite popular when surnames were forming.

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The Common Room / Re: Germans in London
« on: Wednesday 05 February 25 22:21 GMT (UK)  »
What happened to those Dutch/Belgian surnames that appear in anglicised form in Dickens ? (Dikkens surname itself from low countries ?)

I had no idea Dickens was anything but English. The “ken” and “kin” ending (e.g. Wilkins, Hopkins, Tompkins, Hawkins, etc) is common in England…not saying the Flemings didn’t have an influence on this surname for, but we’re going back eight hundred or nine hundred years.  There are also surnames that have a Norman French influence, patronymics that evolved from names the Normans introduced to England such as Hubert, Roland, Robert.  To me, all these surnames are English, with some outside influences. Makes it all the more interesting.

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The Common Room / Re: Germans in London
« on: Tuesday 04 February 25 21:43 GMT (UK)  »
Pre war London was well known for its numbers of German waiters who came to the UK for work.
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I just found one who married a distant relative.

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