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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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Thanks for My Journey: A Holocaust Survivor's Story of Living Fearlessly
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Toward a New Psychology of Women
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The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1)
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The Fortune of Carmen Navarro
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Accidental Love
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The Killing Hour (FBI Profiler, #4)
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Invisible Ink: How 100 Great Authors Disappeared
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The Humming Room: A Novel Inspired by the Secret Garden
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Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
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Ghost Story (The Dresden Files, #13)
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Cathy Williams
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The Accidental
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The Truth Will Set You Free
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A Christmas Story
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Other Stories and Other Stories
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What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past
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Manitou Canyon (Cork O'Connor, #15)
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My Appalachia: A Memoir
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The Whole Story And Other Stories
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The Love of Good Women
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Derby Day
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The Lost Teachings of Jesus, Book 1: Missing Texts - Karma and Reincarnation
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The Bluebird Cafe
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A Dooryard Full of Flowers
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At the Chime of a City Clock
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The Gunniwolf
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The Light in the Piazza
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Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller
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Een meisje van niets : Een vrouwenleven in het sjtetl
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Show Boat
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Fragments of Grace: My Search for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia
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The Finale
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Short Friday and Other Stories including 'Yentl the Yeshiva Boy'
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Skin Game (The Dresden Files, #15)
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The Song
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Shosha
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Changes (The Dresden Files, #12)
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Giant
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Scenes from a Writer's Life
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The Singer
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The Slave
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The Man Verdi
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Rivers (Rivers, #1)
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Omnibus [De slag ~ Jeugd in de Pijp ~ Logboek van de gratias]
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The Killing Season
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Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
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Paperboy
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From Wedded Wife to Lesbian Life: Stories of Transformation
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Ciske
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Into This World
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Jeugd in de Pijp; vrijmoedige herinneringen
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Soft Target (Ray Cruz, #2)
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Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog
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The Gilly Salt Sisters
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De straat
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Coffin in Malta
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Oscar and the Lady in Pink
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Oxygen : A Novel
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I Gave My Heart to Know This
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Wake in Fright
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We Went Looking
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Galveston: A History of the Island (Chisholm Trail Series) (Volume 18)
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Casanova
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The Flamingo Rising
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Autopsie
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Roller Skates
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The Boy Who Kicked Pigs
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The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
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Many Hands Cooking: An International Cookbook for Girls and Boys
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Von Hexen, Riesen und so weiter (Die Zeit Kinder-Edition, #5)
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You and Leukemia : A Day at a Time
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The Wing of Night: A Novel of Love and War
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The Saddlemaker's Wife (Ruby McGavin, #1)
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The First Woman Doctor
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Horatio Hornblower 1 - 11
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The Sex Club (Detective Jackson Mystery, #1)
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New Land: A Novel for Boys and Girls
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Resurrecting Lazarus, Texas
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By the Light of My Father's Smile
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George and Martha Rise and Shine
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Longbourn
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Bushfire: Stories of Lesbian Desire
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Possessing the Secret of Joy
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Groom Unknown
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Out of My Mind (Out of My Mind, #1)
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Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder
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In the Bleak Midwinter (The Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries #1)
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Jul 08, 2010 07:49AM
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."
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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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