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Originally Posted by Morthoron
I'm not too conversant in Nordic cultural naming conventions, but patronymics are most prevalent (Gottfredson, Ericson, or the Icelandic/Faroese dottir for female descendants); however, it seems patronymics are just as endemic in English history (perhaps the Anglo-Saxon variant?), with naming conventions ending in -son (Smithson, Williamson, Johnson, etc.), and in Irish and Scots genealogy (the O prefix in O'Neil, or Mc or Mac in McClellan or MacDonald).
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Umm, well, is there an English/Scottish/Welsh/Anglo Saxon version of the
-dottir variant? I don't think so. We've got tons of
-sons but no
Stuartdottir or
Jamesgirl. And Rosie was Rosie Cotton, not
Tomsdaughter.
