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English Surnames

Note 343 — Chapter V · SURNAMES OF OCCUPATION. (TOWN).

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Talking of Latin forms, however, we are reminded that not unfrequently an artisan of this class would be recorded as ‘William Scissor,’ or ‘Walter Cissor,’ a mode of writing the name very common in our more formal records.

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