Download or read book What s in a Surname written by David McKie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Surnames are much more than convenient identity tags; they are windows into our families’ pasts. Some suggest ancestral trades (Butcher, Smith, Roper) or physical appearance (Long, Brown, Thynne). Some provide clues to where we come from (McDonald, Evans, Patel). And some – Rymer, Brocklebank, Stolbof – offer a hint of something just a little more exotic or esoteric. All are grist to the mill for David McKie who, in What’s in a Surname?, sets off on a journey around Britain to find out how such appellations have evolved and what they tell us about ourselves. En route he looks at the surname’s tentative beginnings in medieval times, and the myriad routes by which particular names became established. He considers some curious byways: the rise and fall of the multi-barrel surname and the Victorian reinvention of ‘embarrassing’ surnames among them. He considers whether fortune favours those whose surnames come at the beginning of the alphabet. And he celebrates the remarkable and the quirky, from the fearsome Ridley (the cry of which once struck terror in the hearts of their neighbours) to the legend-encrusted Tichborne, whose most famous holders were destined to suffer misfortune and controversy. Elegiac and amusing by turns, he offers a wonderfully entertaining wander along the footpaths of the nation’s history and culture, celebrating not just the Smiths and Joneses of these islands but the Chaceporcs and Swetinbeddes, too.
Download or read book I Will Sing the Wondrous Story written by David W. Music and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baptists have a long and rich heritage of congregational song. The hymns Baptists have sung and the books from which they have sung them have been shaping forces for Baptist theology, worship, and piety. Baptist authors and composers have provided songs that have made an impact not only among Baptists in America but also across denominational and geographic lines. Congregational singing continues to be a key component of Baptist worship in the twenty-first century. Beginning with an overview of the British background, this book is a survey of the history of Baptist hymnody in America from Baptist beginnings in the New World to the present. Its intent is to help the reader better understand the background against which current Baptist congregational song practices operate. Unlike earlier writings on the subject, this book provides both comprehensive coverage and a continuous narrative. It gives thorough attention to the major Baptist bodies in America as well as calling attention to the contributions of significant smaller groups. The British Baptist background is dealt with in an introductory section. The book also includes many texts and tunes as illustrations of the topics being discussed and focuses on some of the contributions of Baptist authors and composers to the repertory of congregational song. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Complete Gazetteer of England and Wales Or an Accurate Description of All the Cities Towns and Villages in the Kingdom written by and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Embracing Recent Changes in Counties Dioceses Parishes Etc Index written by John Marius Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book England s Gazetteer written by Stephen Whatley and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Gazetteer of England and Wales In Two Volumes written by and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Publications of the Harleian Society written by Harleian Society and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eight Generations of Broughton in America written by Kathleen Broughton U'ren and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Broughton was born in about 1615 in England. He emigrated before 1650 and settled in Windsor, Connecticut. He married Hannah Bascom 15 November 1650. They had five children. He died 16 March 1662 in Northampton, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Download or read book J G Harrod co s royal despatch and special directory of England written by J.G. Harrod (and co.) and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pauper policies written by Samantha A. Shave and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned. This fresh perspective reveals significant aspects of poor law history which have been overlooked by scholars. Important new research is presented on the adoption and implementation of ‘enabling acts’ at the end of the old poor laws; the exchange of knowledge about how best to provide poor relief in the final decades of the old poor law and formative decades of the New; and the impact of national scandals on policy-making in the new Victorian system. Pointing towards a new direction in the study of poor law administration, it examines how people, both those in positions of power and the poor, could shape pauper policies. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in welfare and poverty in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England.
Download or read book The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England written by Joseph Biancalana and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-27 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fee tails were a heritable interest in land which was both inalienable and could only pass at death by inheritance to descendants of the original grantee. Biancalana's study considers the origins of the entail, and the development of a reliable legal mechanism for their destruction, the common recovery.
Download or read book Acts of the Privy Council of England written by Great Britain. Privy Council and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book T T Clark Companion to Nonconformity written by Robert Pope and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protestant Nonconformity, the umbrella term for Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists and Unitarians, belongs specifically to the religious history of England and Wales. Initially the result of both unwillingness to submit to the State's interference in Christian life and a dissatisfaction with the progress of reform in the English Church, Nonconformity has been primarily motivated by theological concern, ecclesial polity, devotion and the nurture of godliness among the members of the church. Alongside such churchly interests, Nonconformity has also made a profound contribution to debates about the role of the State, to family life and education, culture in general, trade and industry, the development of philanthropy and charity, and the development of pacifism. In this volume, for the first time, Nonconformity and the breadth of its activity come under the expert scrutiny of a host of recognised scholars. The result is a detailed and fascinating account of a movement in church history that, while currently in decline, has made an indelible mark on social, political, economic and religious life of the two nations.
Download or read book The History of Ailington Aylton Or Elton written by Rose Fuller Whistler and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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