SNSBI 2013 autumn day meeting – UWE, Bristol

Current work on surnames and on place-names in surnames

The autumn day conference was held on Saturday 16 November 2013, from 11:00 to 17:00 at the Frenchay campus of the University of the West of England, Bristol.

  • George Redmonds: Writing the short paragraphs for Yorkshire’s surnames
  • Jennifer Scherr: Surnames in Somerset place-names
  • Presentations by members of the Guild of One-Name Studies: John Swallow on Swallow, Polly Rubery on Rowberry
  • Peter McClure: Surnames and the art of lexicography
  • Richard Coates: Demonstration of the Family Names of the United Kingdom (FaNUK) database