tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post3993206941104527253..comments2024-03-23T06:42:28.774+08:00Comments on the view from fanling: in the name of the fatherDennis Hodgsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09409579380626581592noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post-21615888685539608332013-09-06T06:42:24.220+08:002013-09-06T06:42:24.220+08:00Thank you for your comment Jean. If you’re referri...Thank you for your comment Jean. If you’re referring to the northwest of England, I should warn you that I’ll be going back to Hong Kong in October, and I shall be writing about life there until next summer, when I’ll be back in England again. However, I like to think that there’s <i>always</i> something interesting to read here.<br />Dennis Hodgsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409579380626581592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post-74003639933163359172013-09-06T04:13:39.672+08:002013-09-06T04:13:39.672+08:00Dennis, I love reading your blog posts about this ...Dennis, I love reading your blog posts about this part of the world where my ancestors lived for at least hundreds of years. And this about names is so interesting to me because I've been doing genealogy since I was a teenager. I must add you to the "Sites I Visit" page on my blog.Jean | DelightfulRepast.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02038772991628796917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post-65402391998266715692013-09-06T01:42:05.564+08:002013-09-06T01:42:05.564+08:00And we weren’t related.
And we weren’t related.<br />Dennis Hodgsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409579380626581592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post-44603297180204236652013-09-06T00:39:42.371+08:002013-09-06T00:39:42.371+08:00This is true! I never met anyone called Hodgson ti...This is true! I never met anyone called Hodgson till I came to Penrith, then I found two of you in the same class!Peter G. Shilstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14738298407725174339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post-61478890568603012952013-09-02T21:26:56.632+08:002013-09-02T21:26:56.632+08:00It doesn’t surprise me that you knew where your na...It doesn’t surprise me that you knew where your name originated Peter. Mine, as I’ve pointed out, is very common, but it’s probably more common in Penrith and its surroundings than it is throughout England as a whole, so it could be added to the list of names local to the Lakes/Borders that you cited.<br />Dennis Hodgsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409579380626581592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post-18266137557163939122013-09-02T18:01:29.242+08:002013-09-02T18:01:29.242+08:00Dennis:
In furtherance of my earlier comment &...Dennis: <br />In furtherance of my earlier comment & your reply; the Shilston name comes from Devon. There is a 16th century Shilston coat of arms in the church at Crediton, north of Exeter, and at Modbury in south Devon there is a farm called Shilston Barton, standing on the Shilston brook. I think the name was originally "Shelf-stone"; that is, two upright stones with a flat stonePeter G. Shilstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14738298407725174339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post-11073665552095946342013-08-28T03:15:49.795+08:002013-08-28T03:15:49.795+08:00Thank you Uma. We are all acute observers of our f...Thank you Uma. We are all acute observers of our fellow men and how they behave, and Dances with Wolves is an excellent example of what I suspect is a universal human characteristic. Nicknames fulfill a similar function nowadays: for example, ‘Lofty’ is as likely to be a reference to a person’s height as a shortening of Lofthouse.<br />Dennis Hodgsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409579380626581592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post-33472649038253808002013-08-28T00:25:50.960+08:002013-08-28T00:25:50.960+08:00I must say, Dennis that was as much a revelation a...I must say, Dennis that was as much a revelation as it was a gripping account. Yes, the names have had more or less a similar journey across the latitudes and longitudes, what with the very descriptive convention of American Indian tribes, e.g., 'Dances with Wolves'!umashankarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04940072093576263799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post-88517635998228709882013-08-27T02:17:19.851+08:002013-08-27T02:17:19.851+08:00Thank you for your comment Javier. So much human h...Thank you for your comment Javier. So much human history is concealed within the names we give ourselves.<br />Dennis Hodgsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409579380626581592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post-90849213240018352382013-08-27T01:25:38.003+08:002013-08-27T01:25:38.003+08:00Dennis,
I really enjoyed your post. Really intere...Dennis,<br /><br />I really enjoyed your post. Really interesting.<br />My lastname is Jelovčan and according to my grandfather (slovenian) it has a locational origin. It seems that once upon a time the family lived in a mount wich was in time named after the Jelka trees in it (Abies Alba).<br />I live in Argentina, and my first name is Javier (from the Basque expression etxe berri, meaning "Airdish numberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11436462078155993980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post-80013133471515891402013-08-26T20:08:57.096+08:002013-08-26T20:08:57.096+08:00A use for a telephone directory that I hadn’t thou...A use for a telephone directory that I hadn’t thought of Kris. Perhaps I should have, given that in my childhood, we used to ring people at random. When the call was answered, we would say “Is that *** on the line?” When we received a positive answer, we would then say “You’d better get off it then, there’s a train coming.”<br /><br />Silly, I know, but we did daft things when we were young.<br /Dennis Hodgsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409579380626581592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post-64489694770932611162013-08-26T19:38:10.082+08:002013-08-26T19:38:10.082+08:00An interesting read, Dennis. I haven't seen or...An interesting read, Dennis. I haven't seen or used a phone book in years, and no longer have a landline. When I was a kid, the telephone directory was a means of finding people with amusing last names to prank call Poor Charles Bean received many throaty and provocative calls from a certain Mrs. Strawberry :-DHelena Fortissimahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02038388794311046455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post-11601703020630439332013-08-26T14:20:58.656+08:002013-08-26T14:20:58.656+08:00Crazy names Rum? I know what you mean, although I ...Crazy names Rum? I know what you mean, although I too will keep any possible examples to myself. As for the Camerons, Campbells and Kennedys of this world, I think that ‘crooked mouth’ is particularly appropriate in the case of Alastair Campbell, who was after all Tony Blair’s spin doctor.<br /><br />On the subject of women not retaining their own family names when they marry, my maternal Dennis Hodgsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409579380626581592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post-6477512527953453112013-08-26T14:07:02.886+08:002013-08-26T14:07:02.886+08:00You’re right to suggest that a wealth of interesti...You’re right to suggest that a wealth of interesting information can be gleaned from telephone directories Peter, although it would obviously take a lot of hard work. Thank you for your acute observations on the subject. I do wonder, though, whether electoral registers would be a more accurate source, especially nowadays when a lot of people have a mobile phone but not a landline.<br /><br />By Dennis Hodgsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409579380626581592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post-24867021326994057592013-08-25T22:36:10.025+08:002013-08-25T22:36:10.025+08:00Dennis, this is such an interesting and informativ...Dennis, this is such an interesting and informative post. I remember that back in the day when I was younger, names meant something, they were important then bit by bit people began changing things.<br /><br />It's always awkward when you try to spell someone's name only to be corrected because they put another letter on the end of it or somewhere in between ie: Brown to Browne etc. And Rum-Punch Drunkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13531893705181077869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290973459084131413.post-28160894996004885092013-08-25T21:19:17.945+08:002013-08-25T21:19:17.945+08:00It's also interesting to compare telephone dir...It's also interesting to compare telephone directories. I once spent a wet day comparing that of Cumbria with that of Staffordshire, where I was living. I found that Staffordshire had far more Welsh and Irish names, with the sole exception of O'Neill, of whom there were more in Cumbria. On the other hand, Cumbria had far more "-son" names, apart from "Johnson" - but &Peter G. Shilstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14738298407725174339noreply@blogger.com