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Recently I’ve been doing some research and analysis relating to surnames. In England, surnames became hereditary in the 13th or 14th centuries. The ‘fixing’ of a name – so that it passed on to the next generation – was initially found in the South and Midlands, and by the mid-14th century the trend had reached northern counties.

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