The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

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 The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland: VOLUME 1
 Copyright
 Editors and contributors
 Contents
 Introduction
 1. What is FaNBI?
 1.1 Selection of entries
 1.2 Order of contents for entries
 1.2.1 MAIN ENTRIES AND VARIANTS
 1.2.2 FREQUENCIES
 1.2.3 MAIN LOCATIONS
 1.2.4 EXPLANATIONS
 1.2.5 FURTHER INFORMATION
 1.2.6 EARLY BEARERS
 1.2.7 REFERENCES
 1.3 Philology and genealogy
 2. What is a family name?
 2.1 Monogenetic and polygenetic family names
 2.2 Family names and genetics
 2.3 Statistics of population and family names. 3. Origins and development of family names in England3.1 The beginnings of family names in England
 3.2 Linguistic and cultural origins of English names
 3.3 The typology of English family names
 3.3.1 LOCATIVE NAMES
 3.3.1.1 Toponymic names
 3.3.1.2 Ethnic and regional names
 3.3.1.3 Topographic names
 3.3.2 RELATIONSHIP NAMES
 3.3.2.1 Old English personal names
 3.3.2.2 Old Scandinavian personal names
 3.3.2.3 Anglo-Norman French personal names
 3.3.2.4 Pet forms of Norman French and Middle English personal names
 3.3.2.5 Names ending in -s and -son
 3.3.3 OCCUPATIONAL NAMES. 3.3.4 STATUS NAMES3.3.5 NICKNAMES
 3.4 The development of hereditary family names in England
 3.5 The evolution of modern variants
 3.6 The geography of English family names
 4. Family names in Scotland
 4.1 Family names in Scots-speaking Scotland
 5. Family names in Ireland and Gaelic-speaking Scotland
 5.1 The background of Gaelic
 5.2 Gaelic in Ireland and Scotland
 5.3 Gaelic genealogy and characteristic name-types
 5.4 Literature on Gaelic names
 6. Manx family names
 7. Welsh family names
 8. Cornish family names
 9. Family names in the Channel Islands. 10. Huguenot and Walloon family names in Britain and Ireland11. Jewish family names in Britain and Ireland
 11.1 Ashkenazim and Sephardim
 11.2 Jewish languages in Europe
 11.3 History of Jews in England, Scotland, and Ireland
 11.3.1 FROM EXPULSION TO EMANCIPATION
 11.3.2 JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN THE TH AND TH CENTURIES
 11.4 Typology of Jewish family names
 11.4.1 JEWISH RELATIONSHIP NAMES
 11.4.2 JEWISH LOCATIVE NAMES
 11.4.3 ORNAMENTAL NAMES, HANDOUT NAMES, AND OTHER KINDS OF NICKNAME
 11.4.4 JEWISH OCCUPATIONAL NAMES
 11.4.5 JEWISH RELIGIOUS STATUS NAMES. 11.5 Jewish names in eastern Europe and beyond the sphere of German influence11.6 Jewish names in Italy
 11.7 Israeli Jewish names
 12. Family names of recent immigrants in Britain and Ireland
 13. Chinese family names in Britain
 13.1 A brief history of Chinese surnames
 13.2 Typology of Chinese family names
 13.3 Chinese population movement
 13.4 Chinese dialects and their romanization
 13.5 Multiple origins of Chinese family names in the form used in the West
 13.6 Records of Chinese family names
 13.7 Previous work on Chinese family names
 14. Family names from the Indiansubcontinent.