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One-name studies are generally rounded out with a miscellany of information drawn from national bibliographies, archival catalogues, patent databases, reports of law cases, tax lists, newspaper indexes and web searches. A one-name researcher may also report on the linguistic origins of the surname and its use in place names and corporate names.
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Allison is a surname of English and Scottish origin. It was a patronym, in most cases probably indicating son of Allen, but in other cases possibly from Ellis, Alexander, or the female given name Alice/Alise. [2] [3] Alison, variant form Alizon, is a surname of French origin. [4]
Link is an English and German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Bruce Link (b. 1949), American epidemiologist
Navarro is a Spanish and French surname. [1] Navarro is a habitational surname denoting someone from Navarre (Basque: Nafarroa) [2] [better source needed] after the Kingdom of Pamplona took on the new naming in the high Middle Ages, while also keeping its original meaning of 'Basque-speaking person' in a broader sense, an ethnic surname. [3]
The surname Marx is a Germanic surname, believed to originate with Mark the Evangelist and the Roman praenomen Marcus, the latter deriving from the god Mars.The similarly-spelled Marks may share etymology with march (territory), especially near Wales, but most British Marxes have Jewish roots, typically in the Rhineland or former Pale of Settlement. [1]
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McCoy is a common surname of unrelated Scottish and Irish origin. It was anglicized into the Scottish name from the Irish McGee and McHugh surnames in Irish Mac Aodha. [2] It is an Anglicisation of its Irish form Mac Aodha, meaning son of Aodh (a name of a deity [3] in Irish mythology and an Irish word for "fire" [4]).