England

"The Patels are coming." Economist [England] (August 1976): 56.
Abstract: Lawson2: "Lists the top 20 surnames in England and Wales in 1975"

Addison, William. Understanding English surnames. London: Batsford, 1978.
Abstract: Lawson1: "discussion of surnames in England within 8 major regions such as Wessex, the West Midlands, and Lancashire and Yorkshire. Many stories especially about more unusual surnames such as Catchpole and Cokinbred. Index has about 100 surnames. 47 refs"

Ashley, Leonard R. N. "French surnames and the English." Names 11(1963): 177-81.
Abstract: Lawson1: "comment on the number of English surnames such as Algernon, Balliol, Haig, and St Clair that are of French origin"

B.A. "Midland names in the so-called Roll of Battle Abbey." Midland Antiquary , no. 4: 129-31.

Bardsley, Charles Wareing. A Dictionary of English and Welsh surnames
with special American instances. London: Henry Frowde, 1901.

________. " English surnames: their sources and significations,
  Newton Abbott: David and Charles, 1969.

Note:Facsimile reprint of 1st ed., published as ‘Our English surnames’. London: Chatto & Windus, 1873, with prefaces to 2nd & 3rd eds, and new preface, with a new introduction by L. G. Pine

Baring-Gould, S. Family names and their story. London: Seeley and Co, 1910.

Barker, S; Spoerlein, S; Vetter, T and Viereck, W    “An Atlas of English Surnames”  Bamberger Beitrage Zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft  52, 2007.

Beddoe, Dr.  “English Surnames, from an ethnological point of view.  The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland , Vol. 12. (1883), pp. 231-242.

Bennett, J. M. "Spouses, siblings and surnames : reconstructing families from medieval village court rolls." Journal of British Studies 23, no. 1 (1983): 26-46.

Black, W. "On the personal names and surnames used in England in the thirteenth century." Proceedings of the British Archaeological Association (December 1870): 7pp.

Brendler, Silvio. "On the lexicography of English surnames (LES) : Some Problems and Prospects." in: Beiträge Zur Geschichte Der Englischen Und Chinesischen Anthroponomastik : Contributions to the History of English and Chinese Anthroponomastics , 30-39. (Beiträge Zur Lexikographie Und Namenforschung ; Bd. 1). Hamburg: Baar, 2001.

Clark, Cecily. "An anthropologist looks at an Anglo-Norman
new town." in: Anglo-Norman Studies : 2nd Battle Conference (July 1979), 21-41; 168-172. Vol. 2. Battle Abbey, Sussex, 1980.
Abstract: Lawson1: "Description of the principles and methodology of name study in 12th century England. This is followed by a listing from the British Museum manuscript of 115 householders at Battle. Each entry contains available information."

________. "Onomastics." in: The Cambridge History of the English Language, 2: 1066-1476, editor Norman Blake, 542-606. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

________. "Personal-name studies : bringing them to a wider audience." Nomina , no. 15(1991): 21-34.

________. Words, names and history : selected writings of Cecily Clark. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1995.
Notes: Reviewed in ‘Nomina’ 19
Abstract: Selections from the writings of the prominent onomast -Cecily Clark. Some articles reprinted here cover early surnames and by-names

Copeland, Michael G. "Studies in surnames of place in English with emphasis on place-name surnames." University of Sheffield , 1991.
Notes: Thesis (M. Phil)
Abstract: "The orthodox view of surname history posits the presence in Middle English of French loan words like de, de la, del, and le. In due course these were lost when they were `dropped’. This view depends on the assumption that source materials written in Latin and French express the spoken English of the time. This thesis finds that assumption to be mistaken…."

Dolan, J. R. English ancestral names : the evolution of the name from medieval occupations. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1972.
Abstract: Lawson1: "gives historical background of 5000 names derived from occupations. Organised into 189 groups. Comprehensive, schloarly. Index. 58 refs."

Federer, Charles A. The genesis of English surnames. Bradford: 1896.

Fellows-Jensen, Gillian. " In search of lost Danes : the Scandinavian element in English surnames" in  Names, time and place : essays in memory of Richard Mckinley, edited by Della Hooke and David Postles. Leopard’s Head Press, 2003, pp 41-58

Fellows-Jensen, Gillian. "The surnames of the tenants of the Bishop of Lincoln in nine English counties." in NORNA-Rapporter VIII: Binamn Och Släknamn, Avgränsning Och Ursprung, editor Andersson. T, 39-60. Uppsala: 1975.

Ferguson, Robert. English surnames, and their place in the Teutonic family. London: G. Routledge, 1858./

Forster, Klaus. Englische familiennamen aus Ortsnamen : studien zu lautlichen stonderentwicklungen bei eigennamen. Nürnberg: Verlag Hans Carl, 1978.
Notes: 263 p

________. "English family-names from places in England." Nomina 1 (1977): 23-26.
Abstract: Lawson1: "a thesis abstract based on 1200 surnames and associated placenames focussing on how the differences arose i.e. surname Chillinton vs placename Chillington."

________. "English locative surnames and the local pronunciation of
place-names." Names: a Journal of Onomastics 28 no4 (Dec 1980) 305-308

Fransson, Gustav. Middle English surnames of occupation, 1100-1350 : With an Excursus on Toponymical Surnames . London: Williams and Norgate, 1935.

Gelling, Margaret. " Habitation surnames : some notes on ‘A Dictionary of British Surnames’ by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges" in Names, time and place : essays in memory of Richard Mckinley , edited by Della Hooke and David Postles. Leopard’s Head Press, 2003, pp 59-66

Gusynina, E.B. ‘English surnames: their social and linguistic basis’ Vestnik Leningradskogo Universiteta, Istoriya-yazyk-literatura, 37, 4(20), Oct 1982, 111-113

Hey, David. Family history and local history in England. London: Longman, 1987.

________ Family names and family history. London: Hambledon and London, 2001.
Notes: 240pp

________ "Family names and family history." History Today 51, no. 7(July 2001): 38-40.
Abstract: also online- http://www.historytoday.com/index.cfm?Articleid=14373

________ The Oxford book of family history. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

________ Oxford dictionary of local and family history. Oxford: Oxford University Pres, 1997.

________ "Recent advances in the study of surnames" The Historian 80, (Dec 2003)
Abstract: Covers the same ground as his previous History Today article, but in more depth, and updated with illustrative maps from "Surname Atlas"

Hitching, F. K. References to English Surnames in 1602 : an Index Giving About 20,500 References to Surnames Contained in the Printed Registers of 964 English Parishes During the Second Year of the XVII. Century With an Appendix Indexing the Surnames Contained in 186 Printed Registers During 1601 (Omitted From the Volume for That Year). London: C.A. Bernau, 1911.

Hooke, Della and Postles, David Names, time and place : essays in memory of Richard McKinley Leopard’s Head Press, 2003 – isbn 0904920461
Essays on: the Scandinavian element in English surnames; the place-name as surname in Wales; names in “-kin” in medieval Wales; stable families in Tudor and Stuart England; the distribution and stability of surnames in south-east Surrey 1664-1851; surnames and stability – a detailed case study

Holt, James Clarke. What’s in a Name? : Family nomenclature
and the Norman Conquest. Reading: University of Reading, 1982.
Abstract: Lawson1: "through a critical discussion of a number of families such as Arundel, Beaumont, Montgomery, and Mowbray, demonstrates the linkage of toponyms with hereditary names. Approx 66 refs. 23 pages."

Hughes, James Pennethorne. How you got your name : the origin and meaning of surnames. London: Phoenix, 1961.
Abstract: Lawson1: "concise treatment of the origin of surnames from patronyms, locations, occupations, and nicknames. Mostly English."

Hunnisett, R. F. "Problems of medieval English surnames." Family History 11 (May 1980): 69-89.

Insley, John. "Recent trends in research into English bynames and Surnames, Some Critical Remarks." Studia Neophilologica 65, no. 1 (1993): 57-71.

Jones, G.P.  ‘Continuity and change in surnames in four northern parishes’. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, ns, 73 (1973), 142-7.

Kristensson, Gillis. "Studies on Middle English surnames containing elements of French origin." English Studies , no. 50(1967): 465-98.

Lanahan, William F. "What’s in a name? : family surnames and social upheaval in medieval England." Social Studies , no. 65(1974): 218-22.

Lasker, Gabriel Ward. "Genetic structure of the human population of Britain As Revealed in the Distribution of Surnames." in: Anthropological Studies in Great Britain and Ireland, editors Firestone Melvin M and Cove John J, 147pp. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona State University, 1982.

Leaver, R. "Families on the move : personal mobility and the diffusion of surnames." The Local Historian 20, no. 2(1990).

Light, John. "Foundling names: a survey of surnames given to foundlings
in a selection of London parishes in the years 1740-50." Genealogists’ Magazine, 21 (1983), 112-17.

Löfvenberg, Mattias Teodo. Studies on Middle English local surnames. Lund: C.W.K. Gleerup, 1942.

Lordan, Charles Legge. Of certain English surnames and their Occasional odd phases when seen in groups. London: Houlston and Sons, [1874?].
Notes: 122 pages

Loyd, Lewis Christopher. The origins of some Anglo-Norman families. Leeds: Harleian Society, 1951.
Abstract: Lawson2: "shows how family names were derived from places in Normandy and other nearby areas"

Maidbury, Laurence. "English surnames in Latin." Amateur Historian , no. 1(1954): 368-71.
Abstract: Lawson2: " Translations of some 200 plus surnames into Latin"

________. "Family history into surnames." Amateur Historian , no. 2(1954): 114-17.

Matthews, Constance. English surnames. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1966.
Abstract: Lawson1: " covers topics of family relationships, local names, Pre-conquest names, surnames from Women’s first names. Tables from London telephone directory. Approx 2250 items in index. 100+ refs."

________. How surnames began. London: Lutterworth Press, 1967.
Abstract: Lawson1: " general introduction to surnames. A simplified version of the author’s English surnames. British emphasis.

________. "Surnames of occupation." History Today , no. 13(1963): 449-58.

McClure, Peter  ‘The interpretation of Middle English nicknames: a review of Jan Jönsjö, Studies on Middle English Nicknames. 1, Compounds ‘  Nomina  5, (1981), 95—104

________. "Lay subsidy rolls and dialect phonology". In Otium et negotium: studies in onamatology and library science, ed. Sandgren,F. (Stockholm, 1973), 188-94.

________. "Patterns of migration in the late Middle Ages : the evidence of English place-name surnames." Economic History Review, no. 32 (1979): 167-82.
Abstract: Lawson1: "Suggests that placename surnames give an indication of the patterns of migration for social betterment. 7 refs."

________. "Surnames from English placenames as evidence for mobility in the Middle Ages." The Local Historian 13, no. 2(1978).
Abstract: Lawson1: " discussion of some of the difficulties and their resolution of using surnames as evidence of mobility"

McKinley, Richard."’Regional differences in the evolution of surnames’  English Genealogical Conference: Selected papers given at the congresses of 1976 and 1984  Society of Genealogists,1986

McKinley, Richard. "Social class and the origin of surnames." Genealogists’ Magazine 20, no. 2(1980): 52-56.
Abstract: Lawson1: "Lists from the 12th and 13th century from East Anglia, Suffolk, and Norfolk, show that there was a high percentage of surnames derived from place-names among the land-owning classes. Similar findings are shown in data from Oxfordshire and Lancashire somewhat later. Among bondsmen, surnames derived from topological features (Field, Brooks etc) and from Christian names were more common.

________. "The survey of English surnames." The Local Historian  8, (1969).

Moore, John.  ‘Who was ‘Mahumet’? Arabs in Angevin England’ Prosopon 11 (July 2000)
Abstract: considers whether names such as ‘Mahumet’, ‘Paucamatus’, ‘Sarazin’ may be of direct Arab-Turkish origin
Note: link to website

North Bucks, pseud. ‘Peasant family surnames : specimens mainly confined
to single counties’. Notes and Queries, 182 (1942), 316.

Pashley, Robert. "English surnames; their historical origins and
development." Edinburgh Review (1855).

Phythian-Adams, Charles. "Local history and societal history." Local Population Studies, no. 51 (1993): 30-45.
Notes: suggests notional boundaries (based on watersheds) for local areas – the core areas (in which local surnames are likely to have remained?)

Porteous, John Douglas. "English surname studies: a
methodology." Genealogists’ Magazine 20 (March 1982): 295-97.

Postles, David. "Defining the "North" : some linguistic evidence." Northern History, no. 38 (2001): 27-46.

________. "French surnames in medieval England ." Moyen Age 101, no. 1 (1995): 7-21.
Abstract: An evaluation of the role of the French-Language on Middle-English vernacular

Reaney, Percy Hide. The origin of English surnames. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
Notes: Reviewed in ‘Nomina’ 4 (1980)and Foundations of Language, 9:3 (1973), 392-402
Abstract: Lawson1: "an interpretation and extension of the author’s A dictionary of British surnames. Covers local surnames; those of office, occupation, and relationship, and those derived from physical and social characteristics"

Reay, Barry. Microhistories: demography, society and culture in rural England, 1800-1930. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Redmonds, George. "English surnames research." In: The Study of the Personal Names of the British Isles, 75-86. Herbert Voitl, Klaus Forster, and John Insley. Erlangen: Institut für Anglistik & Amerikanistik, 1976.
Abstract: Lawson1: "criticizes Reaney’s Dictionary of British Surnames. Recommends tracing of modern surnames by genealogical methods"

________. "Migration and the linguistic development of surnames." Family History 11, no. 77/78 (August 1980).
Abstract: Lawson1: "develops the position that as bearers of surname migrate, there are variations in the name. Traces the Lightowler family in Rochdale parish from 1246 to Yorkshire, Bradford, and the Colne Valley as Lightoller and Lightholder. Hinchcliffe and other names are also discussed"

________. Surnames and genealogy: a new approach. Bury: Federation of Family History Societies, 2002.
Reviewed in Nomina 21 (1998)

________. "Surnames and place-names." Local Historian 10, no. 1(February 1972): 3-7.

Robson, J. M. "Surnames and status in victorian England." Queens Quarterly 95, no. 3 (1988): 642-61.

Rogers, Colin D. and John H Smith. Local Family History in England, 1538-1914. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991.

Rogers, K. H. More Vikings & Surnames. K.H. Rogers, 1995.

________. Vikings & Surnames. York: William Sessions, 1991.

Ruckdeschel, Gisela. "Secondary motivation in English family names." Nomina , no. 4(1980): 64-66.
Abstract: Lawson1: "abstract of a doctoral dissertation at the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Focuses on 887 English surnames, mostly ME, with aspects of secondary motivation (introduction of ‘unknown, unfamilar and isolated words into the vocabulary of a language with known and familiar words, although no etymological relation exists among the words’)"

________. Studien zur sekundären motivation bei Englischen famialiennamen . [West Germany]: 1980.
Notes: 210 p. Reviewed in Nomina 5

Rybakin, A. I. Slovar Angliiskikh familii = A dictionary of English surnames. Moskva: Ruskii iazyk, 1986.

Smith, G. ‘The geography and demography of South Asian languages in England: some methodological problems’ (Linguistic minorities project working paper no 2), University of London, Institute of education 1982
Note: uses family names

Smith, Hugh. "Early northern nick-names and surnames." Saga Book of the Viking Society 11 (1928).

Tengvik, Gösta. Old English bynames … Uppsala: Almquist & Wiksells, 1938.

Thomas, C. "Irish colonists in south-west Britain." World Archaeology 5, no. 1(1973).

Thornton, D. and K. Keats-Rohan. "Domesday names.": Boydell Press, 1977.
Notes: 0851134298

Thuresson, Bertil. Middle English occupational terms. Lund: Gleerup, 1950.

Todd, Andrew. Shadows of ancestors : surnames and practical family history research Bury: Allen & Todd, 1996.

Upton, Clive. Atlas of English dialects. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Viereck, Wolfgang  ‘Towards an atlas of English surnames’ Scripta Neophilologica Posnaniensia   6 (2004), S. 231-259

Weekly, Ernest. French and Flemish surnames in England. London: Modern Language Teaching, 1913.
Notes: 41-43 p.

Weekly, Ernest. ‘Surnames and the chronology of the English vocabulary’. Discovery 2 (1921), 2-5