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Many of today's last names (including many of the most common last names) derive from the medieval tradition of appending people's trade to their given name (for a fictional example, see Ken Follett's "The Pillars of the Earth" and "World Without End"). So let's bring them all together here, those Smiths, Millers, Bakers, Farmers, etc.!
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All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #1)
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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
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1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List
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Your Erroneous Zones
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Nicholas Meyer Holmes Pastiches #1)
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
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Aan zee: Taferelen uit de kinderjaren
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Dear Committee Members
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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By Design (Medieval #2)
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Scepticism Inc.
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Grendel
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Hard Times
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Snowdrops
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Lovesong
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Kwikzilver
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Roaring Boys: Shakespeare's Rat Pack
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Hotel World
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God and Mr. Gomez
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The Lavender Field
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Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
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Journey to the Stone Country
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Annabel: An Unconventional Life
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Wij en ik
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Ordinary Grace
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Depraved Indifference (Jaywalker, #3)
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The House at Sugar Beach
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No Invitation Required: The Pelham Cottage Years
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Het grote rivierenboek
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Cold Days (The Dresden Files, #14)
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Darwin for Beginners
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The Compleat Werewolf and Other Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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Jim Giraffe
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The Office of the Dead (Roth, #3)
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Breath: A Lifetime in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung: A Memoir
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The Mermaid's Child
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Wij
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Tag Man (Joe Gunther #22)
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A Charlotte Mason Education: A Home Schooling How-To Manual
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The Hockey Sweater
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Night at the Opera
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On Dangerous Ground
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Pallieter
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The Return of the Twelves
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When the People Fell
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The Rune Primer: A Down to Earth Guide to the Runes
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Outbreak (Dr. Marissa Blumenthal, #1)
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Century
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The Dead I Know
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Wandelingen in Lier
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The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir
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Lord Nelson Tavern
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Public Library and Other Stories
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George and Martha Round and Round
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Missing Mountains: We Went to the Mountaintop but It Wasn't There
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For Your Own Good
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How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf (Naked Werewolf, #1)
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Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall
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Summer in February
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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The Way of the Warrior: Stories of the Crow People
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Plan B: A Nick Heller Story (Nick Heller, #2.5)
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Special Exits
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Maisie : Her life in her letters from 1898 to 1902
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Eating with Emperors: 150 Years of Dining with Emperors, Kings, Queens . . . and the Occasional Maharajah (The Miegunyah Volumes, 120)
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The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
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Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book Of Hope And Understanding
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Sunnyside
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Zinssicherung in der Zwangsversteigerung des Erbbaurechts: Vorschläge zur Lösung des Rangkonflikts bei der Beleihung von Erbbaurechten (Europäische Hochschulschriften Recht)
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The Comeback Season
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The Healing Connection: How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life
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On Beauty
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Aspects of the Novel
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Behindlings (Thames Gateway, #2)
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In the Path of Falling Objects
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Hoe houd ik het uit met mijn neurotische kat
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Locked In (Sharon McCone #26)
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Going Down South
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The GODS OF GOLF
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Home By Another Way
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Up to No Good
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Fatal Pursuit (Bruno, Chief of Police, #9)
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The Embassy of Cambodia
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The Ring of the Nibelung
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The Way of All Flesh
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Death at Bishop's Keep (Kathryn Ardleigh, #1)
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How to Lead a Life of Crime
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Delia's How to Cook: Book Three (Delia's How to Cook #3)
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A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s Only All-Girl Garage
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The Art of Being a Healing Presence: A Guide for Those in Caring Relationships
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Delia's How to Cook: Book Two (Delia's How to Cook #2)
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Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn (Midvale Academy, #1)
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Delia's How to Cook: Book One (Delia's How to Cook #1)
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The Collected Short Stories
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FOOTNOTE: Sartoris....."taylor" in Latin.
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Yes, of course! (What am I missing about Atwood's "Blind Assassin," though?)
Forester, perhaps.
Wagner? Muller? Ferber?
(Just found Ferber... Farber=Dyer in german)
Wagner? Muller? Ferber?
(Just found Ferber... Farber=Dyer in german)
Meier (or in last names, any variant spelling) refers to a poulty farmer in German.Wagner => wagonner (a wagon driver). Same in German for a wagon, or rather, cart wheel maker, btw.
Müller = German for miller.
Forster = forester (forest keeper); again, virtually the same in German (Förster).
And, yes, Ferber (or actually, Färber) = German for dyer.
Anyone for French names? (Boulanger? Patissier? Boucher?)
Thanks T.-A. You learn something new every day!
Färber: can't do the umlaut thing on my keyboard... or accents...
Wiki failed me on these!
Färber: can't do the umlaut thing on my keyboard... or accents...
Wiki failed me on these!
Yeah, I know -- that used to drive me nuts when I was living in the States! I hated always having to open a Word doc, insert the umlaut as a special symbol and then copy it ...
It's not bad on a Mac, but I never have figured out how to do it on a PC keyboard.And what is "Atwood"?
Susanna wrote: "It's not bad on a Mac, but I never have figured out how to do it on a PC keyboard.
I know there is a way, but I cant remember the stupid code numbers...
Themis-Athena wrote: "Yeah, I know -- that used to drive me nuts when I was living in the States! I hated always having to open a Word doc, insert the umlaut as a special symbol and then copy it ..."
...so I've got the ones I use most on my Google side bar, so I just have to copy and paste. No umlaut in Italian, however!
I know there is a way, but I cant remember the stupid code numbers...
Themis-Athena wrote: "Yeah, I know -- that used to drive me nuts when I was living in the States! I hated always having to open a Word doc, insert the umlaut as a special symbol and then copy it ..."
...so I've got the ones I use most on my Google side bar, so I just have to copy and paste. No umlaut in Italian, however!
Themis-Athena wrote: "Yes, of course! (What am I missing about Atwood's "Blind Assassin," though?)"Well, it's kinda grim, but "assassin" is a profession in the story-within-the-story. They are higherlings, and there are several of them, the blind assassins. And, of course, there are many books about professional assassins, more's the pity. Martin Sheen plays a professional assassin in Apocalypse Now, a film I wish was a book so I could make GR questions about it.
No, but other diacritical marks (à etc.) ...
Susanna wrote: "It's not bad on a Mac, but I never have figured out how to do it on a PC keyboard.And what is "Atwood"?"
Yes, I'm wondering about that as well!
Themis-Athena wrote: "Susanna wrote: "It's not bad on a Mac, but I never have figured out how to do it on a PC keyboard.And what is "Atwood"?"
Yes, I'm wondering about that as well!"
One of my grad school classmates was one Alfred KLEINERKREUTZMAN......What's that about ?
Little cross man??!!
Themis-Athena wrote: "Little cross man??!!"Yes, he said his grandfather would tell the story of how the name came to be, but if Al ever told ME the story, I forgot it. I'm guessing it was the person who was "kleiner", not the cross.
Don't forget 'cooper', 'chandler', 'baker', etc. Any such list could get really unweildy really fast.
Do feel free to add books by Coopers, Chandlers, Bakers, etc. ... the more the merrier, as far as I'm concerned! :)
What's a 'James'? (As in Henry James, #10)'Bakker' is Dutch for baker, by the way. 'Boer' is Dutch for farmer and 'Brouwer' is Dutch for brewer. 'Molenaar' is miller, 'Meester' is (school) master and 'Visser' is fisherman.
'Kuyper' is the old Dutch form of 'Kuiper' - Cooper in English'Craemer' is the old Dutch form of 'Kramer' - Peddler/Pedlar in English
'Coster' is the old Dutch form of 'Koster' - Sacristan in English
'Volder' is Dutch for Fuller
'Olyslaegers' is Dutch for a person who crushes plant seeds to get the oil (I don't know the English translation for this)
Koenraad wrote: "''Olyslaegers' is Dutch for a person who crushes plant seeds to get the oil (I don't know the English translation for this).."Olyslaegers (Olieslager) = oil-crusher/oil-presser :-)
Coster/Koster is also Sexton. She isn't in the list yet, and I don't have any of her work, otherwise I would have added something by Anne Sexton.
Hayes wrote: "(Just found Ferber... Farber=Dyer in german)"The Dutch surname 'Verver'/'Verwer' also means 'dyer'.
Booklovinglady wrote: "Olyslaegers (Olieslager) = oil-crusher/oil-presser :-)"Thanks for the translation - didn't realize it was quite that simple :-)
"Coster/Koster is also Sexton. She isn't in the list yet, and I don't have any of her work, otherwise I would have added something by Anne Sexton."
You can add books that are not on your shelves to a list. Just go to "Add Books To This List" and click on Search where it says "Add books from: My Books or a Search". Then you can look up a title, an ISBN or an author and add books from the results.
Added Felix Timmermans and Lia Timmermans (father and daughter btw). Dutch for' Carpenter'.
Koenraad wrote: "Added Felix Timmermans and Lia Timmermans (father and daughter btw). Dutch for' Carpenter'."Completely forgot about Felix Timmermans.... I've added an omnibus with his work. Thanks Koenraad.
Added another one too, by the way: Snijders (son of 'Snijder') = cutter
Koenraad wrote: "You can add books that are not on your shelves to a list...."I know I can ;-) but I rarely do. Except for Listopia's used for the seasonal challenges of the Netherlands & Flanders group (in which only titles of books translated into Dutch are mentioned), because if I stuck to the titles on my own shelves for these, I wouldn't have a Listopia to refer to :-)
Hayes wrote: "Wagner? Muller? Ferber...""Wagner" is German and if I remember correctly it has something or other to do with carts/wagons. So maybe someone who makes carts and wagons. I'm sorry, but it is nearly 40 years ago since I took German classes in high school :-)
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