 | Mark Antony Lower - 1860 - 540 страници
...a river, which may be crossed without bridge or boat — a common termination of local surnames. " In Ford, in Ham, In Ley, in Ton The most of English Surname* run." Vtrtttyan. FORD. Parishes and places in cos. Durham, Sussex, Bucks, Northumberland,... | |
 | Samuel Hambleton Needles - 1876 - 158 страници
...HAM. — Anglo-Saxon ham, a homestead, whence — HAM, as a component syllable in many family names : "In Ford, in Ham, in Ley, in Ton. The most of English surnames run." HAMBLEDON. — Parishes, &c., in counties of Rutland, Lancaster, Buckingham, and York. HAMILTON. —... | |
 | Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley - 1879 - 188 страници
...York, and indeed all that class so multitudinous of which the old distich already quoted says, — " In ford, in ham, in ley, in ton, The most of English surnames run." Sometimes the "ley" gets corrupted. There can be little doubt, for instance, that Hathaway is but a... | |
 | Manuals - 1879 - 68 страници
...physical character istics of English. 10 Compare Dutch, German and Engnsh. 11 Inference from this* In Ford, in Ham, in Ley, in Ton, The most of English surnames run. Close affinity with other Low German dialects. V. Danes. — Traces in names of towns, especially on... | |
 | Teacher - 1879 - 582 страници
...physical characteristics of Engl1sh. 10 Compare Dutch, German, and English. '' Inference from this? In Ford, in Ham, in Ley, in Ton, The most of English surnames ran. Close affinity with other Low German dialects. V. Danes. — Traces in names of towns, especially... | |
 | James Bonwick - 1880 - 544 страници
...tribe or family, as Warriugton is the ton or village of the ing or clan of Wara. The rhyme says : " in ford, in ham, in ley, in ton, The most of English surnames run." Family names in ing, according to Kemble, are 2 in Cornwall and Westmoreland ; 6, Cumberland ; 48,... | |
 | 1881 - 726 страници
...with two fingers extended, as if blessing from heaven. The seal is in the possession of Mr (j. \V. Shrubsole, Market Square, Chester. J. HARRIS. LOCAL...not French people, but simply the English, either Anglos or Saxons. Wherever we have a word ending in ' ton,' aa we have abundantly here, Pendleton,... | |
 | Windlesham, William Urmston Searle Glanville Richards - 1881 - 80 страници
...Field is a component syllable in a great number of family names. It has been said :— " In FIELD, in HAM, in LEY, in TON, The most of English surnames run." — Loicer. f '- Upper Ten Thousand." | The family of Bulwer is of £axon origin, and was founded by... | |
 | 1883 - 194 страници
...Anglo-Saxon name. It will be noticed how very frequently the termination ley occurs. Says the old couplet In ford, in ham, in ley, in ton The most of English surnames run, English being equivalent to Anglo-Saxon ; and from the Anglo-Saxons come the large majority of our... | |
 | Federico Garlanda - 1886 - 314 страници
...end had we to go through all the English surnames derived from local names. There is an old couplet : In " ford," in " ham," in "ley," in " ton," The most of English surnames run ; and, as we have seen elsewhere, all these endings, "ford," "ham," "ley," "ton," are but words to denote... | |
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In Ford, in Ham, in Ley, in Ton, The most of English surnames run. 
