The concise Oxford dictionary of family names in Britain / Harry Parkin ; with additional material and revisions by Patrick Hanks [and six others].
"The FaNBI project (Family Names in Britain and Ireland), based at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics at the University of the West of England in Bristol, was a major research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain. The aim was to research the origins of fam...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Oxford Reference |
| Summary: | "The FaNBI project (Family Names in Britain and Ireland), based at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics at the University of the West of England in Bristol, was a major research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain. The aim was to research the origins of family names throughout Britain and Ireland, building on foundations laid by previous scholars but using new methods, new principles, and new resources. These previous scholars include in particular P. H. Reaney and R. M. Wilson, whose Dictionary of English Surnames was made available to the FaNBI project in digitized form by agreement with the publishers, Routledge and Oxford University Press. Other long-standing standard works regularly consulted included Black's Surnames of Scotland, MacLysaght's Dictionary of Irish Surnames, Woulfe's Irish Names and Surnames, Welsh Surnames by T. J. and Prys Morgan , and Kneen's Personal Names of the Isle of Man"-- |
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| Item Description: | "Based on The Oxford dictionary of family names in Britain and Ireland (FaNBI)."--Title page. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 1009 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page xxvii) |