• Home
    • About the Guild
    • About one-name studies
    • Starting your ONS
    • Conducting ONS (videos)
    • Join Us
    • Guild Shop
  • Studies
    • Surnames A-Z
    • Recent Registrations
    • Registered Websites
    • Registered Societies
  • News
    • General News
  • Forums
    • Guild Facebook page
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • Conference & AGM
    • Seminar events
    • Guild Webinars
  • Resources
    • Journal
    • Members’ Websites
    • DNA
    • Modern Surnames
    • Those Who Served
    • Newspaper Index
    • Guild Indexes
    • Pharos ONS Courses
    • Speakers
  • Help
    • Reset your password
    • Contact Us
  • Log In

Guild of One-Name Studies

One-name studies, Genealogy

Is your surname here?

    • 2,556 members
    • 2,324 studies
    • 8,271 surnames

Mediaeval

Barrow ‘Scots in the Durham Liber Vitae’ in: Rollason, David, et al., Eds. , Durham Liber Vitae and its Context, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (2004) [isbn; 1843830604].

Bartrum, Peter C. ‘Cognomens in Wales in the fifteenth century’. National Library of Wales Journal, 30:2 (1997), 133-6. Note: covers: 1400 – 1500

Bartrum, Peter C. ‘Personal names in Wales in the fifteenth century’. National Library of Wales Journal, 22:4 (1981-2), 133-6.

Clark, Cecily ‘Battle c.1110: an anthropologist looks at an Anglo-Norman new town’, Proceedings of the Battle conference on Anglo-Norman Studies, 2, 1980 for 1979, 21-41, 168-72

_____ ‘The Liber Vitae of Thorney Abbey and its “Catchment Area”‘ Nomina 9 (1985), 53—72

_____ ‘Onomastics’, Cambridge History of the English Language, vol. 2: 1066-1476, edited by Norman Blake (1992), pages 542-606

_____ ‘Socio-economic status and individual identity: essential factors in the analysis of Middle English personal-naming’ in Words, Names and History
Notes: also reprinted in: Naming, Society and Regional Identity edited by D.A. Postles. Leopard’s Head press, 2002

_____ ‘Willemus rex? Vel alius Willelmus?’ Nomina 11, (1987) pp 7-33
Notes: Reprinted in Words, Names and History

_____ Words, Names and History, Selected Writings of Cecily Clark; edited by P.Jackson (Cambridge, 1985)
Notes: The collected writings of the renowned onomast. Reviewed in Nomina 19 (1996)

Dodgson, John McNeal ‘Some Domesday Personal-Names, mainly Post-Conquest’ Nomina 9 (1985), 41—52

Ekwall, E. Early London personal names (Skrifterutgivna av Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund, 43). Lund, 1947.
Notes: covers 1050 – 1300

Fellows-Jensen, Gillian  ‘On the identification of Domesday tenants in Lincolnshire’ Nomina  9 (1985), 31—40

Fellows-Jensen, Gillian  ‘The names of the Lincolnshire tenants of the Bishop of Lincoln c 1225’ in Otium et Negotium : Studies in Onamatology and Library Science presented to Olof von Feilitzen edited by Folke Sandgren pp86-95 Norsedt and Söner 1973

Forsnner,T.  Continental-Germanic Personal-Names in England in Old and Middle English Times Uppsala, 1916

Franklin, Peter ‘ Normans, Saints and politics : forename-choice among fourteenth-century Gloucestershire peasants’ Local Population Studies 36 (1986), 19-26
Notes: Reprinted in ‘Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales’

Haas, Louis ‘Social connections between parents and godparents in late Medieval Yorkshire’ Medieval Prosopography 10:1 (Spring 1989), 1-21
Notes: Reprinted in ‘Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales’ pp159-175

Insley, John ‘Recent trends in the research into English bynames and surnames : some critical remarks’ Studia Neophilologica 65 (1993), 57-71

Insley, John ‘Some aspects of regional variation in Early Middle English personal nomenclature’ in: Studies in Honour of Kenneth Cameron, edited by Thorlac Turville-Petre and Margaret Gelling, pp183-199 (1987)
Notes: Reprinted in ‘Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales’ pp191-209

Insley, John ‘The names of the tenants of the Bishop of Ely in 1251: a conflict of onomastic systems’ Ortnamnssällskapets i Uppsala Årsskrift (1985), 58-78

McClure, Peter ‘The interpretation of hypocoristic forms of Middle English baptismal names’ Nomina, 21 (1998), 101-31
Notes: covers 1250 – 1360

_____ ‘The kinship of Jack: I, pet-forms of Middle English personal names with the suffixes –kin, -ke, -man and -cot ‘ Nomina, 26 (2003), 93-117
Notes: argues that these are a group of Flemish and Franco-Flemish hypocoristic suffixes introduced post-Conquest

_____ ‘The kinship of Jack: II, pet-forms of Middle English personal names with the suffixes –cok, and -cus’ Nomina, 28 (2005), 5-42

Moore, John ‘Anglo-Norman names recorded in the Durham Liber Vitae
‘ in: Rollason, David, et al., Eds. , Durham Liber Vitae and its Context, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (2004) [isbn; 1843830604].

Morris, David ‘The rise of Christian names in the thirteenth century: a case study of the English nobility’ Nomina, 28 (2005) 43-54

Niles, P. ‘Baptism and the naming of children in late medieval England’. Medieval Prosopography, 3:1 (1982), 95-107.
Notes: Reprinted in ‘Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales’ pp147-157
covers 1250 – 1500

Piper,A.J. ‘The Names of the Durham Monks’ in: Rollason, David, et al., Eds. , Durham Liber Vitae and its Context, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (2004) [isbn; 1843830604].

Postles, David ‘At Sørensen’s request : the formation and development of patronyms and metronyms in late medieval Leicestershire and Rutland’. Nomina 17 (1994), 55-70
Notes: covers 1318 – 1525

_____ ‘The baptismal name in thirteenth-century England: processes and
patterns’, Medieval Prosopography 13 (1992), 1-52

_____ ‘The changing pattern of male forenames in medieval Leicestershire and Rutland to c.1350’ Local Population Studies 51 (1993), 54-61.
Notes: covers 1114 – 1350

_____ ‘Cultures of peasant naming in twelfth-century England’ Medieval Prosopography 18 (1997), 25-54.
Notes: covers 1100-1200

_____ ‘Noms de personnes en langue française dans l’Angleterre du moyen âge’, Le Moyen Age CI (1995), 7-21

____ ‘Notions of the family, lordship and the evolution of naming processes in medieval English rural society : a regional example’  Continuity and Change  10 (1995), 169-98.
Notes: covers 1066 – 1365

_____  ‘Personal naming patterns of peasants and burgesses in late medieval England’  Medieval Prosopography  12:1 (1991), 29-56
Notes: covers 1050 – 1500

_____  Studies on the personal name in later medieval England and Wales ed. David Postles and Joel Rosenthal (Series: Studies in medieval culture : 44) Medieval Institute Publications, 2006 (Isbn 1-5804402-6-6)
Contents:
– Names and naming patterns in medieval England : an introduction / Joel T. Rosenthal
– English personal names ca. 650-1300 : some prosopographical bearings / Cecily Clark
– Identity and identification : some recent research into the English medieval “forename” / Dave Postles
– Women’s names in post-conquest England : observations and speculations / Cecily Clark
– The popularity of late medieval personal names as reflected in English ordination lists, 1350-1540 / Virginia Davis
– Spiritual kinship and the baptismal name in traditional European society / Michael Bennett
– Baptism and the naming of children in late Medieval England / Philip Niles
– Social connections between parent and godparents in late Medieval Yorkshire / Louis Haas
– Normans, saints and politics: forename choice among fourteenth-century Gloucestershire peasants / Peter Franklin
– Some aspects of regional variation in early middle English personal nomenclature / John Insley
– Comparing historic name communities in Wales : some approaches and considerations/ Heather Jones
– Resistant, diffused, or peripheral? : northern personal names to ca. 1250 / Dave Postles
– The domesday jurors / Chris Lewis
– Names and ethnicity in Anglo-Norman England / Stephanie Mooers Christelow

Redmonds, George ‘The history of Joseph’ Ancestors 23

_____ ‘The name game’ Ancestors 20
Notes: a consideration of the information first names suggest about “family circumstance, relationships and geographical roots

_____ ‘Ranking order: popular male names 1377-1381’ Ancestors 24 (April 2004)
Notes: considers the wide regional variation in name popularity in the late 14th century

Rollason, Lynda   ‘The late medieval non-monastic entries in the Durham Liber Vitae’ in: Rollason, David, et al., Eds. , Durham Liber Vitae and its Context, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (2004) [isbn;1843830604].

Stell, P.M. ‘Forenames in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Yorkshire : a study based on a biographical database generated by computer’. Medieval Prosopography, 20 (1999), 95-128.

Turville-Petre, Joan. ‘Patronymics in the late thirteenth century’. Nomina, 21 (1998), 5-13.

THIS IS A DEFAULT WIDGET WHICH SHOULD NOT DISPLAY. DO NOT DELETE THIS.

Modern British Surnames

ww1

  • Modern British Surnames
    • About the research
    • Distribution
    • Variance
    • Statistics
    • Bibliography
      • By location
      • By topic
      • Given names
        • General
        • Pre-conquest
        • By-names
        • Mediaeval
        • Early modern
        • Late modern
        • Victorian
        • Women's names
        • Linguistic/Social
      • Societies
      • Periodicals
      • Websites
      • Author Index
    • Teaching
    • Taxonomy

Other Guild Websites

You may find our other Guild websites of interest:

  • Members’ Websites Project
  • Surname Cloud
  • Guild Members’ records on FamilySearch
  • Guild Marriage Locator

Contact Us

Email: guild general contact
Address for correspondence:
c/o Secretary, 113 Stomp Road,
Burnham, Berkshire, SL1 7NN, U.K.
Registered office address:
Box G, 14 Charterhouse Buildings,
Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA U.K.
Call us free on:
UK: 0800 011 2182
US & Canada: 1-800-647-4100
Australia: 1800 305 184

Follow Us


  • Facebook

  • Twitter

  • YouTube

  • RSS Feed

Guild of One-Name Studies Policies:    Privacy   Membership Conditions   Sales   COVID-19 Impact

© 2013–2021 Guild of One-Name Studies. Registered Charity in England and Wales, No. 802048.