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Surnames in parentheses preceded by "née" indicate birth family maiden names (if known) of married women, who upon marriage generally took their husbands' surnames. Due to the low population of the Massachusetts North Shore at the time of the trials, a significant percentage of local residents were related to other local residents through ...
Baas – The Boss. Bakker – Baker. Beek, van – From the brook. Beekhof – garden brook. Beenhouwer – Butcher. Berg, van der – From the cliff, mountain. Berkenbosch – birch wood, a grove of birch trees. Bijl, van der – "from the axe" – i.e. descended from woodcutters (lumberjacks) Boer, de – the Farmer.
These are the lists of the most common Spanish surnames in Spain, Mexico, Hispanophone Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic), and other Latin American countries. The surnames for each section are listed in numerically descending order, or from most popular to least popular.
A Dutch child's birth and given name (s) must be officially registered by the parents within 3 days after birth. It is not uncommon to give a child several given names. Usually the first one is for daily use, often in a diminutive form. Traditionally, Catholics often chose Latinized names for their children, such as Catharina and Wilhelmus ...
c. 1600–1641 Denmark: Burned to death. Elizabeth Clarke: c. 1565–1645 England: The first woman persecuted by the Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins; hanged. Adrienne d'Heur: 1585–1646 France: Burned to death. Alse Young: c. 1600–1647: Connecticut Colony: The first person recorded to have been executed for witchcraft in the American ...
Early modern Scotland was a patriarchal society, in which men had total authority over women. [1] From the 1560s the post- Reformation marriage service underlined this by stating that a wife "is in subjection and under governance of her husband, so long as they both continue alive". [2] As was common in Western Europe, Scottish society stressed ...
The most common Danish family name surnames are patronymic and end in -sen; for example Rasmussen, originally meaning "son of Rasmus" (Rasmus' son).Descendants of Danish or Norwegian immigrants to the United States frequently have similar names ending in the suffix "-sen" or have changed the spelling to "-son".
The most common surnames in modern Wales result from adding an s to the end of the name, as in Jones, Roberts and Edwards. Patronymic surnames with the short -s form are recorded in various parts of England dating back to the Middle Ages. As most Welsh surnames are derived from patronymics and often based on a small set of first names, Welsh ...