The surname of Maksim Maksimych (colloquial for Maksimovich) is not mentioned.
I found the captain of dragoons at Grushnitski's, together with another gentleman whose surname I do not remember.
Hidell, or any combination of that, in which the surname Hidell was employed?
I take it, then, you are unacquainted with any circumstances under which he employed, if he did employ at any time, the surname Hidell?
Once a man got a surname it was handed on to all his children, as surnames are to-day.
A very common form of surname is a Christian name with son added to it.
The chief thing about a man who got the surname of Henshaw or Ramshaw was probably that he owned, or had the care of, such a shelter for hens or rams.
The surname Thin has the same meaning as Meagre, from which the common name Meager comes.
Bullock as a surname probably had the same sort of origin.
Thus we have Curt for Short, and the quite well-known surname Petit, which would be Short or Little in English.
And the word for Smith is the commonest surname in almost every country of Europe.
Noël is found, too, both as a Christian name and surname in England.
There were many smiths, and John the Smith and Tom the Smith easily became John Smith and Tom Smith, and thus had a surname to pass on to their families.
In the inscription he is called Roberti; whether his surname or a second name, iii.
Sustris, is the surname of Federigo di Lamberto, called also Del Padovano, see Del Padovano.
He is termed a Roman, perhaps, as a surname acquired by his long residence in Rome.
Neva, he won for himself the surname Newsky, and in A.
It was to them that Peter of Lyons owed his spiritual awakening and his surname of Waldus, i.
His amazing acquirements in philosophical, theological, cabalistic, and natural science won for him the surname of the Great, and the title of doctor universalis.
His 2nd son was Lord Beresford’s heir, and assumed the surname of Beresford.
Took the additionalsurname of Stepney by royal licence.
In 1822 took the surname of Vere, in addition to that of Broke.
Footnote 2: Afterwards assumed the surnameof Henderson in addition to that of Mercer.
Roxburgh, and assumed the surname of Scott in addition to that of Douglas.
Footnote 27: Assumed the surname of Butler on succeeding to the Barton estate, co.
Footnote 4: Eldest son of Roger Comberbach, who assumed the surname and arms of Swetenham.
Assumed the surname of Cleveland, in lieu of that of Willett, in 1817.
Assumed the additional surnameof Blair on succeeding to the Penninghame estate, co.
He was known by his patronymic as Lord Francis Leveson Gower until 1833, when he assumed the surname of Egerton alone, having succeeded on the death of his father to the estates which the latter inherited from the duke of Bridgewater.
He was of Turco-Tatar origin, and hissurname was originally Emin; this was changed to Eminovich and finally to the Rumanian form Eminescu.
Now Michelangelo always signed his own letters Michelangelo Buonarroti, although he addressed the members of his family by the surname of Simoni.
These communications prove that, though he had come to be known as Buonarroti, he did not wish the family to drop their old surname of Simoni.
When the use of Di and Fitz expired, Simoni survived from Di Simone, as did my surname Symonds from Fitz-Symond.
An Englishman using Don with the surname (an error to which our countrymen are strangely prone) commits the very same blunder for which he laughs at the Frenchman who says "Sir Peel.
The Christian names were correctly given, the surname approximately; but the approximation was such (the initial letter of the name being the only incorrect one) that I had no difficulty in recognising the name.
Maxwell were sufficient to have 'fixed' any one who had the slightest knowledge of the language in question; (2) because the medium already knew the surname of Dr.
The surname was given; a curious mistake was made before the Christian name was correctly given: the name of T.
The first certain instance of such a surname is that of Manius Valerius Maximus, consul in 491, who, as conqueror of Messana, assumed the name Messalla (ii.
The presence of Maximus as a surname in the Valerian (i.
I believe that many people fancy that Guelph or Welf is a surname of the present, or rather late, royal family.
The Angevin family are commonly known as the Plantagenets; but that name was never used as a surname till the fifteenth century.
As was the custom with the French noblesse each son adopted a surname derived from some portion of the ancient family estate.
In the town and parish records of Rowley the name of Thomas Burpee frequently appears--the surname usually in the form of Burkby or Burkbee.
It bears the appropriate surname which was given to this justly-loved pope--"Temporum suorum felicitas.
Her similar surname meant little here; but it was also his, and, added to the identity of domicile, lent a strong suggestiveness to the accident.
Mihailov did not remember his surname nor where he had met him, nor what he had said to him.
And mentioning his surname she introduced the young man, and reddening a little, broke into a ringing laugh at her mistake--that is, at her having called him Vaska to a stranger.
He issued arms to them, received the surname of Confesseur, and, in 1809, was put to death with others as the result of a judgment rendered by Bourlac.
The additional surname of Hastings was assumed by Lord Rawdon in 1790, in accordance with the will of his maternal uncle Francis Hastings, tenth Earl of Huntingdon.
In 1817, on the death of his father, he succeeded to the Dukedom of Marlborough, and in the same year he assumed by Royal Licence the surname and arms of Churchill in addition to his patronymic of Spencer.
His son Frederick, who assumed the additional surname of Lampson in 1885, afterwards became a well-known book collector.
She pulled me up very abruptly yesterday when I asked her what Hilda's surname really is.
Titherington had spoken of using violent means of persuasion, of dragging the surname of Hilda out of the young man.
If I had known Hilda's surname I should have told it to him at once.
I wanted to know what Hilda's surname was, a matter long obscure to me, which Titherington, if any man living, would find out.
That was all the detectives had to go upon, and for days the police inquired if anyone had missed a girl whose Christian or surname began with B.
Gaetulians rose in a revolt of sufficient importance to afford the surname Gaetulicus to Cornelius Lentulus Cossus, the Roman general who helped to suppress it.
If the generally accepted explanation of his surname ("man of Kerioth"; see Josh.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surname" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
