Stufflebeem, Brockway and Sturt: The Origins of Our Surnames

by ShelleyKlein (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.36

  Amuse your friends! Astound and impress new acquaintances - or you could just sit quietly in a corner and enjoy dipping into our very personal and yet common national history with Stufflebeem, Brockway and Sturt. With over 1500 entries, their meanings and associated anecdotes you can at last answer that perennial question 'What's in a name?' A good deal of intriguing information about our ancestors, actually: where they lived, or what they looked like, what they did for a living - even their morals, personal habits and the important events in their lives. Here too are the origins of such revered American names as Roosevelt and Rockerfeller, as well as surnames which, while they may have originated in Britain, Ireland or elsewhere in Europe, have become commonplace, sometimes in adapted versions, in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.