Show Origin of Surnames S No one can can s say y with a n certainty when the time practice of or taking a a surname became general genral The Greel Greeks s Assyrians ans Egyptians and other peoples peoples peo pee I ples pies had no surnames the later Ito Ro Romans mans had each one real personal name to which they sometimes added a clan name or nomen a a. a family name Dame or orco co cognomen omen and a ft nickname or agno agno- men The Tile personal or name I was the only name recognized by early English law surnames being words of or description used to identity Identify persons persons of or orthe the same name from each other The Time I Normans had Introduced into England Englund the habit of ot using surnames but this was vas confined to tolio fie tle upper classes By degrees even eyen the common people began be be- gan to be distinguished by names referring re- re ferring to personal characteristics a as Armstrong rank or profession as Smith fathers father's name as liS Jack Jackson n. n etc fate |