Thread: Why Genealogies?
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Old 11-15-2008, 01:22 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by Bêthberry View Post
Umm, well, is there an English/Scottish/Welsh/Anglo Saxon version of the -dottir variant? I don't think so.
I don't believe I ever inferred there was. *shrugs*

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We've got tons of -sons but no Stuartdottir or Jamesgirl. And Rosie was Rosie Cotton, not Tomsdaughter.
Well, as females were mere chattel in jolly old England, what would be the point of recognizing them?

*runs for cover in case of possible feminine animosity*
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