Origin And History of the Name of Smith With Biographies of All the Most Noted
Origin And History of the Name of Smith With Biographies of All the Most Noted
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About the period alluded to, the innovation of a second personal name occurs, though but vcr3' rarely. The practice was imported to Great Britain from the Continent, where it seems to have originated among the literati in imitation of the trianomina of antiquit}-. The accession of the many-named house of Brunswick may be said to have rendered it somewhat fashion- able; and during the last century it has become every year more common. Should the fashion continue, it is probable that at the dawn ...of the twentieth centu- ry it will be as difficult to find a hinoniinated person in America, as it is in France at the present day. Another innovation belongs to the seventeenth cen- turj'; that of the use of some famiU' name as a bap- tismal appellation, as Gouldsmith Hodgson, Boscawen Low^er, Cloudsle\' Shovel. This practice as well as the other is highly to be commended, as serving to iden- tifv the individual w^ith the designation. The s:enealo- gist w^ill at once see its utilit3^; and it is suggested to parents the desirability of inserting the maternal fami- ly name between the proper name of baptism and the surname, as James Alorton Wilson, Henr3' Smith Brad- \ty.
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