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| Author | Topic: Surname History |
| Griff |
posted 3/17/05 12:25 AM
Could anyone please help? I am researching the surname JOHN. I have some family links to that name and wish to know as much as I can. |
| peter williams |
posted 3/18/05 1:55 PM
i may have something on that in my Hisotry of wales when at Act of UOnion l536 many Welsh adopted (were forced to adopt) English names for the census takers and English lawyers etc. John was taken from the Bible and it was also short and easy to remember. True also of the name Jones-, as there is no J in the Welsh alphabet. |
| Jean-Claude EVEN |
posted 3/19/05 12:50 AM
Hello, When I speak with english speakers, I dont normally ear / understand : Jones, but : DJones That seems to be what we call a palatisation. For example, at the end of the 19th century, a abbot, most interested with history, discovered that the Place-name Jublains (near LE MANS, north west of France, was a name coming from "Djublain", himself coming from the gaul tribal name Diablintes. *********** It is right that many welsh family names are coming from the Bible. Whe have not the same problem in Brittany, because that country was for the most Roman-catholic. JC Even |
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