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Position:Home>Genealogy> Historically if you were a hospital attendant what would your surname be?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. 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 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. |