08-06-2017, 04:17 PM
One of my pet hobbies is ancestry, and so I am often amazed when people don't know the origin of their own surname. Most of these unknowns are often either dead professions, farm names or a variant of a language long forgotten.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category...l_surnames
Some are still obvious like cooper, goldsmith, or carpenter. Others, not so much, like fuller, becker, or granger.
The tradition of taking the name of your profession is gone, so when newly dead professions like trucking, cabbie, chauffeur fall into the scrap heap of history there will be no legacy of surnames left behind.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category...l_surnames
Some are still obvious like cooper, goldsmith, or carpenter. Others, not so much, like fuller, becker, or granger.
The tradition of taking the name of your profession is gone, so when newly dead professions like trucking, cabbie, chauffeur fall into the scrap heap of history there will be no legacy of surnames left behind.
”There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.
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