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Suffolk Surnames, second edition

Product Code: US0318
Number of CDs: 1
Author: Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch
Pages: 786
Pub. Date: (1861) 2007
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Bowditch created a file of all surnames he encountered in the Suffolk County, Massachusetts, deed and probate records from the 1640s to the 1820s, to which he added lists of surnames from other sources. He organized these surnames into various categories, to which he added his personal analysis.

Some of the categories employed by Bowditch are similar to those used by modern scholars of English surnames, such as "Trades and Occupations," "Relationship and Affection" and "Mental Qualities." Other categories are more idiosyncratic and amusing, such as "Diseases and Medicines; Drinking Names," "Bodily Peculiarities" and "Articles of Dress and Ornament."

The volume concludes with a complete index of the thousands of surnames included in the compilation. Bowditch was clearly still collecting surnames at this final stage of production of his book, as there are dozens of surnames which make their first appearance in the index, where they are explained in footnotes.

In this second edition, the Suffolk surnames which formed the basis of the author's earlier work are joined by lists of names from all over the English-speaking world. The arrangement of the surnames and the comments made by Bowditch are highly entertaining, but his suggestions for the origins of some of the surnames are not always reliable.

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The CD includes high-quality images of every page as originally published (not just a transcript) and is fully searchable using Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 5 or later recommended) on any Windows, Macintosh, or Unix computer. The data on this CD is completely self-contained, and requires no installation.

Suffolk Surnames, second edition

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