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Oct 20, 2020
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Alan Crosby shares his views on family history
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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