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What's in a Name? Exploration of fixed cultural naming traditions
« on: Wednesday 09 June 21 10:09 BST (UK) »

What's In a Name?

Four Thought

Helena Goodwyn interrogates the near universal practice of giving children their father’s - not their mother’s - surname

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000wsf2


ANSTRUTHER,Worldwide
BENNETT,
BRETT, Sligo
CARNEGIE,
CROCKFORD, Hampshire.
ELLIOT,
GAUNTLETT, Worldwide
HEAL, HEALE, HELE, Chew Magna, Somerset
HENRY, Sligo
MABEY, Dorset
O'HANLON
POPE, London docklands,
STANDERWICK, Somerset,
Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk