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will readily be seen that the majority of these names were

not likely to descend8 to a

second generation. The son of John

William-son would be Henry John-son, or Henry Alice-son

he might or might not retain the

personal name, or the trade-name;

he probably would inherit. This

why so large a majority of our

modern surnames are place-names,

whether in respect

of a town, as Nottingham, Debenham,

Brentwood: or of a country locality, as Brook, Lane, Hill,

etcetera. Now and then a series of

Johns in regular descent would fix

the name of Johnson on the

family; or the son and grandson

pursuing the same

calling as the

surnames have arisen in such a

the line into Tanners. All