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Question:They didn't have hospitals back when people were making up surnames from their occupations. Baker, Carpenter, Cook, Fletcher, Fowler - occupational surnames were occupations in the middle ages. They had Doctors, though.

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has 200+ people surnamed Doctor and another 200+ surnamed Nurse in the 1881 census.


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Doctor

Scottish: according to Black, an hereditary occupational name for a physician, from Latin doctor ‘teacher’, but possibly in some cases it may have the same origin as Daughters.

Americanized form of German, Czech, Slovak, and Hungarian Doktor.

Indian (Gujarat and Bombay): Parsi occupational name for a physician, from the English word doctor.


Nurse

English, Scottish, and Irish: variant of Norris 3.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: They didn't have hospitals back when people were making up surnames from their occupations. Baker, Carpenter, Cook, Fletcher, Fowler - occupational surnames were occupations in the middle ages. They had Doctors, though.

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/f...
has 200+ people surnamed Doctor and another 200+ surnamed Nurse in the 1881 census.


http://www.ancestry.com/facts/-name-mean...
has

Doctor

Scottish: according to Black, an hereditary occupational name for a physician, from Latin doctor ‘teacher’, but possibly in some cases it may have the same origin as Daughters.

Americanized form of German, Czech, Slovak, and Hungarian Doktor.

Indian (Gujarat and Bombay): Parsi occupational name for a physician, from the English word doctor.


Nurse

English, Scottish, and Irish: variant of Norris 3.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

Porter.

errm Porter?

nightingale

Almond (as in almoner)
Ted, St Bart's was founded in 1123

Orderly

Porter !!!

Tom Bollocks-Shearsmith!

get on with your work and forget the works Christmas quiz is my advice.

knights templar,depends how far back in time you go.