Study of proper names of all kinds and the origins of names

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Personal and family names : a popular monograph on the origin and history of the nomenclature of the present and former times / by Harry Alfred Long.

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Personal and family names : a popular monograph on the origin and history of the nomenclature of the present and former times / by Harry Alfred Long.