 | 1856 - 336 pagina’s
...identified when spoken of, and confusion avoided in the ordinary affairs of life. The name of John Tones is a perpetual incognito in Wales, and being proclaimed...of a more extended range of Christian names, if the Welsh people could be induced to overcome their unwillingness to depart from ancient customs, so far... | |
 | George Seton - 1863 - 648 pagina’s
...people assume the name and arms of somebody else !" The Registrar-General of England informs us that " the name of John Jones is a perpetual incognito in Wales, and being proclaimed at the cross of a markettown would indicate no one in particular."2 A most 1 Sth October 1859. 2 Sixteenth Annual Report,... | |
 | William Farr - 1885 - 606 pagina’s
...such names as Jones, Williams, Davies, Evans, nnd others, »1 most defeats the primary object of u name, which is to distinguish an individual from the...a market town would indicate no one in particular. From the circumstance of their common British origin it might be supposed that the Welsh people and... | |
 | William Farr - 1885 - 612 pagina’s
...the mass. It is only by adding his occupation, place of abode, or some other special désignation, that a particular person can be identified when spoken...a market town would indicate no one in particular. From the circumstance of their common British origin it might be supposed that the Welsh people and... | |
 | George Seton - 1887 - 214 pagina’s
...degree influenced by the statement of the late English Eegistrar-General in one of his reports, that " the name of John Jones is a perpetual incognito in Wales, and on being proclaimed at the cross of a market town would indicate nobody in particular." Under ordinary... | |
 | Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley - 1898 - 680 pagina’s
...prxnomen, would be (as has been well said by the Registrar-General) in Wales a perpetual incognito, and being proclaimed at the cross of a market town would indicate no one in particular. Certainly ' John Jones,' in the Principality, is but a living contradiction to the purposes for which... | |
 | Susa Young Gates - 1918 - 606 pagina’s
...praenomen, would be (as has been well said by the Registrar-General) in Wales a perpetual incognito, and being proclaimed at the cross of a market town would indicate no one in particular. Certainly, 'John Jones,' in the Principality, is but a living contraction to the purposes for which... | |
 | John Rowlands, Sheila Rowlands - 1999 - 370 pagina’s
...official support as when, in 1856, the then Registrar General, George Graham, observed that: The name John Jones is a perpetual incognito in Wales, and...the cross of a market town would indicate no one in particular.1 As a result of a comprehensive survey of the occurrence and incidence of surnames across... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1858 - 592 pagina’s
...countrymen in the principality could be mustered under less than 100 different surnames ; and he states that the name of John Jones is a perpetual incognito in...market town, would indicate no one in particular. At the same time he suggests that a partial remedy for this state of things would perhaps be found... | |
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It is only by adding his occupation, place of abode, or some other special designation, that a particular person can be identified when spoken of, and confusion avoided in the ordinary affairs of life. The name of John Jones is a perpetual incognito in... 