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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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I Capture the Castle
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The Crucible
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The Last of the Mohicans
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit (World of Beatrix Potter, #1)
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
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Death of a Salesman
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)
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A Room with a View
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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The Dark Is Rising Sequence (The Dark is Rising, #1-5)
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Daisy Miller
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She Stoops to Conquer
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Harry Potter Series Box Set (Harry Potter, #1-7)
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
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The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
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The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (World of Beatrix Potter, #2)
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A Passage to India
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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
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Howards End
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The Vicar of Wakefield
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Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Qur'an
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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White Teeth
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Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump, #1)
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The Piano Tuner
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Daniel Mason (Goodreads Author)
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Blacklands (Exmoor Trilogy, #1)
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Belinda Bauer (Goodreads Author)
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Postcards from the Edge
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Lionel Shriver (Goodreads Author)
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Understood Betsy
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Tropic of Capricorn (Tropic, #2)
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Hope Was Here
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Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
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Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 60,257 ratings
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The Avion My Uncle Flew
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Cyrus Fisher (Pseudonym)
3.91 avg rating — 573 ratings
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Christy
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Breathing Lessons
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Anne Tyler (Goodreads Author)
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The Color Purple
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MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors (M*A*S*H, #1)
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Seven Little Australians (Woolcots, #1)
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The Diary of a Nobody
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Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #3)
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Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)
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River God (Ancient Egypt, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 43,313 ratings
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Midnight On The Moon (Magic Tree House, #8)
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,179,647 ratings
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The Real Mother Goose
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Vaclav & Lena
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Class
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The Complete Poems
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
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Delusions of Grandma
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A Summons to Memphis
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No Way of Telling
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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Morning Glory
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The Sound and the Fury
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
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Erewhon (Erewhon, #1)
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The Old Man and Mr. Smith: A Fable
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The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, #1-3)
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Darkmans (Thames Gateway, #3)
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Sartoris
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The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
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The Great Hunger : Ireland 1845-9
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The Lost Crown
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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Tristan et Isolde
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The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
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Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
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K-PAX The Trilogy (K-PAX, #1-3)
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The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
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An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England: A Novel
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The Deerslayer (The Leatherstocking Tales, #1)
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Homer's Odyssey
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Cimarron
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Dragon's Lair (Justin de Quincy, #3)
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On My Honor
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Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
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Patience & Sarah
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Native Son
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The Case of the Lonely Heiress (Perry Mason, #31)
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The Thief of Always
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Atemschaukel
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Remarkable Creatures
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Ingenious Pain
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Edwin of the Iron Shoes (Sharon McCone #1)
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Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country
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The Origins of the Second World War
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The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (World of Beatrix Potter, #14)
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Lamb in His Bosom
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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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