Charles W. Bardsley, Curiosities of Christian Nomenclature (1880)
Charles W. Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1901)
Christopher Brice, Names for the Cornish, pub. Dyllansow Truran (1999)
John R. Clark Hall, A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1916)
T.F.G. Dexter, Cornish Names (1926)
Leslie Dunkling, The Guinness Book of Names (6th Edition) (1993)
Thorvald Forssner, Continental Germanic Personal Names in England in Old and Middle English Times (1916)
Gary D. German, Breton Patronyms and the British Heroic Age (2009)
David Gledhill, The Names of Plants (4th Edition) (2008)
Heini Gruffudd, Welsh Names for Children (2006)
A.T. Johnson and H.A. Smith, Plant Names (2008)
Alexander MacBain, An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (1982)
A.D.Mills, Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names (2003)
T.J. Morgan and Prys Morgan, Welsh Surnames (1985)
Donnchadh O Corrain & Fidelma Maguire, Irish Names (1990)
P.H.Reaney & R.M.Wilson, Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames (1997)
Mats Redin, Studies on uncompounded personal names in Old English (1919)
George Redmonds, Christian Names in Local and Family History (2004)
K.M.Sheard, Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names (2011)
Walter W. Skeat, Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (2007)
Scott Smith Bannister, Names and Naming Patterns in England 1538-1700 (1997)
Meic Stephens, Welsh Names for your Children (2003)
W.J.Watson, The Celtic Placenames of Scotland (2004)
E.G.Withycombe, The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1977)
Charlotte Mary Yonge, History of Christian Names (Vol I & II) (1863)
Behind The Name
Medieval Names Archive
Online Etymology Dictionary
Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
Mrs L. Burke, The Illustrated Language of Flowers (1856)
Miss Carruthers, Flower Lore: The Teachings of Flowers, historical, legendary, poetical and symbolical (1879)
Elizabeth Haig, The Floral Symbolism of the Great Masters (1913)
John Ingram, The Language of Flowers or Flora Symbolica (1887)
Robert Tyas, The language of flowers, or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments (1869)
Catharine H. Waterman, Flora's Lexicon: an interpretation of the language and sentiment of flowers (1855)
The Language of flowers : an alphabet of floral emblems, pub. T. Nelson and Sons (1857)
Language of Flowers, pub. F.Warne, illustrated by Kate Greenaway (1900)
W.W.Gill, Third Manx Scrapbook (1963)
J.J.Kneen, Personal Names of the Isle of Man (1937)
A.W.Moore, A Vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx Dialect (1924)
A.W.Moore, The Surnames and Place-names of the Isle of Man (1906)
The Manorial Roll of The Isle of Man 1511-1515
Graham Anderson, King Arthur in Antiquity (2003)
N. J. Higham, King Arthur: Myth-Making and History (2002)
Stefan Zimmer, The Name of Arthur: A New Etymology, in: Journal of Celtic Linguistics, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2009)
Inspirational Namesakes: Women in Science
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/ayrton.htm
www.famousscientists.org - features detailed biographies about most of the scientists listed above. Well worth a read.
http://www.nobelprize.org
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/nov/21/royal-society-lost-women-scientists
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/airspacesciencemath/tp/Famous-Women-Scientists.htm
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-historic-female-scientists-you-should-know-84028788/?no-ist
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130519-women-scientists-overlooked-dna-history-science/?rptregcta=reg_free_np&rptregcampaign=20131016_rw_membership_n1p_intl_ot_c1#
http://www.carlsagan.com
http://www.biography.com/people/nikola-tesla-9504443
https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/lovelace.html
St David's Day: David and fellow Welsh Saints
www.earlybritishkingdoms.com
thehistoryofwales.typepad.com
www.historic-uk.com
Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names by K.M.Sheard
Welsh Names for Children by Heini Gruffudd
Statistics and Data
Names in England and Wales: Office for National Statistics
Names in Scotland: General Register Office for Scotland
Names in Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
England and Wales Census 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911: findmypast
Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales: findmypast; FBMD
Norfolk Parish Records: Norfolk Record Office; The Dart Series of Norfolk Parish Register Transcripts
The Domesday Book; Domesday Explorer
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