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Name origin.
« on: Monday 13 February 12 12:56 GMT (UK) »
Hi

Could anyone   please  tell me  where the  name Guilielmi originates.

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Re: Name origin.
« Reply #1 on: Monday 13 February 12 13:03 GMT (UK) »
Similar to Latin for William, so I would imagine that is the background of the name
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: Name origin.
« Reply #2 on: Monday 13 February 12 13:04 GMT (UK) »
Thanks

I  thought  it  may  be  Welsh.

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Re: Name origin.
« Reply #3 on: Monday 13 February 12 13:17 GMT (UK) »
See Latin Names & Abbreviations  http://freereg.rootsweb.com/howto/latinnames.htm

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Re: Name origin.
« Reply #4 on: Monday 13 February 12 14:26 GMT (UK) »
Not Welsh.  The Welsh for William is Gwylym. (I may have got the spellingwrong!)

What is your reference for Guliemi?  I've found a lot of my ancestors were baptised with a Latin version of their name eg Susannah for Susan, Jacobus for James etc.
Chowns in Buckinghamshire
Broad, Eplett & Pope in St Ervan/St Columb Major, Cornwall
Browning & Moore in Cambridge, St Andrew the Less
Emms, Mealing & Purvey in Cotswolds, Gloucestershire
Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham in Norfolk
Higho in London
Matthews & Nash in Whichford, Warwickshire
Smoothy, Willsher in Coggeshall & Chelmsford, Essex

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Re: Name origin.
« Reply #5 on: Monday 13 February 12 19:58 GMT (UK) »
It is a form of the Latin for William- Gulielmus.
In documents such as wills etc Latin was used right up to the 1600's, I think.
Gulielmi would probably be the genitive case denoting belonging to= of William.
Latin was used for christian names but not surnames.
Actually, it is very useful, if not essential ,for working out the meaning of what is written, because Latin does not use word order to support meaning, so word-endings tell you, for example, who is doing the action of a verb, or who is having something done to them or who owns something.
Eg- if you get "man dog eats" in latin, you have to look  at the ending of the words to find out if it was the man doing the eating or the dog!!
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