>Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 11:46:46 +0100 From: "Carol, TreeTops" ><[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: ><[email protected]> Subject: [Anglo-Italian] >Fw: Faggetter Content-Type: text/plain; >charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: >7bit -----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: anglo-italian-l >[email protected] <[email protected]> Date: >11 May, 2002 21:38 Subject: Faggetter My grandfather was Henry >Faggetter. I am told Faggetter is an Italian name, but I am not >certain. Can you please advise me. If it is Italian then it may be >very helpful to join the Anglo Italian Society. >Many thanks Jean Smith Reaney. in 'A Dictionary of English Surnames' says: [begin quote] A derivative of Middle English, Old French fagot 'a bundle of wood', hence a maker or seller of faggots. Simon le faggotter 1279. [end quote] I don't know if that's quite what you hoped to find, but it could stop you following a false trail. Cheer, Roy