","Patronyms were formed by adding a variety of suffixes to personal names, which changed over time and from place to place. For example, after the Norman Conquest, sunu and sune, which meant son, were the most common patronymic suffixes.","England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It occupies more than half of the land of the area. It shares its borders with Wales to the West and Scotland the to its north. Laced by great rivers and small streams, England is a fertile land which has supported a thriving agricultural economy for millenia.","Local names, which are also referred to as toponymic surnames, were given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. They were also sometimes used to denote a person's nationality.","A family seat, or simply a seat, was the principal manor of a medieval lord, which was normally an elegant country mansion and usually denoted that the family held political and economic influences in the area. In some cases, the family seat was a manor house.","Poll Tax by definition is a "tax, of uniform amount levied on each individual, or 'head' and dates back to 14th century England. Poll Tax has continued in many forms through to modern history. The Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379 led to the Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising in 1381. In the United States a similar tax based on the right to vote was struck down in 1964 with the 24th Amendment.","Many of our last names in use today, cannot be found before the 17th and 18th century since the majority of them were changed. By example, the famed William Shakespeare, spelt his last name, Shakespeare, Shakespere, Shakespear, Shakspere, and Shaxspere.","The Subsidy Rolls were taxation records of England and Wales that began in 1332 and continued until the Hearth Tax Returns or 1662 to 1674. Each roll was published by county.","It is generally thought that Norse Viking, Leif Erikson, was the first European to arrive on the island of Newfoundland, now the easternmost province of Canada. He arrived there in the year 1000 and established L'Anse aux Meadows, the only known Viking settlement in North America outside of Greenland. This site remains a historical site in Canada and it is located on the north coast of the island.","Lancashire (Lancs) didn’t exist in 1086 for the Domesday Book but was first created in 1182, a historic, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county. Originally two separate parts which included Manchester and Liverpool along the northwestern edge of England.","This historic county of Yorkshire (County of York) is located in Northern England and is the largest in the whole England and the United Kingdom. Full of large stretches of countryside including well known Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors and the Peak District it is now surprise it was nicknamed “God’s own Country”.","Dutch navigator Willem Jansz aboard the Duyfken was the first European to land in waht is now known as Australia in 1606. He charted much of the Gulf of Carpentaria, located on the northern coast of Australia. In 1616, another Dutch captain, Dirk Hartog, landed on the west coast of Australia near Shark Bay.","
Circa (c.)
A Latin word that literally means "about" or "around" as in c. 1500. The other forms ca or ca. are also used throughout the histories.
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