Long before Lorde, Adele, or even Cher, one name was all a person needed. In Britain before the Norman Conquest of 1066, people went by single names. If a village had an overabundance of Toms, one ...
Track the origins of your surname with these seven last name 'types'... Do you know where your surname comes from? For a lot of you reading this (this writer included) your surname won't actually have ...
The four year study traced back the names - finding out if they came from a person's occupation or even hometown FROM Farah, Twelvetrees and Li, the origins of more than 45,000 surnames has been ...