Timeline for When did patronymics cease to be used in North Wales?
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| Dec 27, 2012 at 13:42 | comment | added | bgwiehle | How much discretion would the minister or whoever recorded the entry have had in the way the parties were identified? Certainly the spelling would be his, but could there also have been a tendency on his part to use older forms? | |
| Oct 13, 2012 at 2:54 | comment | added | Fortiter | My reasoning (about more Parrys making the patronymic explanation less likely) was that if many others in the parish had standardised on Parry as a surname, why would Henry ap Richard choose to name his daughter in that way. The additional information about the decline of "ferch" suggests I am wrong! | |
| Oct 12, 2012 at 17:01 | comment | added | user104 | Thank you for the pointer to Rowlands, John, and Rowlands, Sheila, eds. The Surnames of Wales for Family Historians and Others. I've bought a copy online and reviewed it, and updated my question accordingly. (It needs more space than a comment to explain what I've found). | |
| Oct 12, 2012 at 14:14 | comment | added | user104 | Can you explain why the large number of Parry marriages in Llanllyfni makes it less likely to your mind? Parry was a common surname in North Wales, so it would be expected to show up frequently in marriage registers. | |
| Oct 12, 2012 at 13:32 | history | answered | Fortiter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |