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Surnames
Just a little hobby of mine (and a first stab at collateral pages): a collection of names deriving from occupation. Let me know if there are any I've overlooked!
This works for the first part of the list, then below are other English names of a related nature (adjectival, geographical, zoological), and then German. It's interesting to consider how some of them became names (Warner?). Do you know the origin of any of the questioned ones?
newest: Barker, Stoneman, Mercer
Abbott Archer Ashburner Baker Berger Binder Bishop Blocker Bookbinder Bowman Brewer Bride Butcher Canemaker Carpenter Carter Cartman Cartwright Chamberlain Chandler Churchman Clark Collier Cook Cooper Currier Cutler Cutter Deacon Dean Doctor Draper Drayer Driver Farmer Fisher Fletcher Forester Fowler Fuller Gardener Glazer Glover Goldsmith Grainger Groom Hooper Hopper Hornblower Horner Hunter Joiner Jump King Lander Landsman Leadbeater Makepeace Major Marriner Mason Mechanic Miller Oliver Ostler Palmer? Parker Parson Player Ploughman Ploughwright Plumber Pope Porter Potter Priest Prince Rider Roper Sadler Sawyer Sayer Scribner Sergeant Severn? Shepherd Shoemaker Singer Smith Speaker Stringer Stockman Tanner Taylor Teller Turner Victor Wagoner Walker Waller Ward Warden Warner Weaver Webster? Wheeler Wheelwright Woolman Wright Yeoman
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Flint Green Brown Black Stiles Miles Foot Hand Gurney Bowditch Ropes Marks Penn Savage Lawless Wylde Horsey Cox Lambsey Lindsay Fox Martin Wolfe Friendly Standing Sterling Ford Crisp Quick Lane Field Hill Vale Dale Towne Tower Wall Wells Wellstone Woolsey Flowers Pierce Grubb Maggot
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Burgher Eisenhower Fenstermacher Fleischer Geiszler? Greider? Messerschmidt Meyer? Musiker Reiser Schrieber Schreier Shrader? Stadler? Steiner Volweiler? Weber? Zimmerman
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