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Начало Тема Форум Российского общества Вудхауза / О П.Г.Вудхаузе / Feathersonehaugh
- Автор vitaly Время 2002-11-02 21:03
From:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/north_east_england_history_page/SURNAMES.htm

This is a very long surname which fools many who try to pronounce every syllable. It should be pronounced Fanshaw. The surname derives from a place called Featherstonehaugh near Haltwhistle in Northumberland. If we take the name to pieces it means the meadow near the feather shaped stone. One famous owner of this seventeen letter surname was Albany Featherstonehaugh, a sixteenth century High Sheriff of Northumberland who was murdered by a band of notorious Tynedale thieves called the Ridleys and Thirlwalls. The murder is commemorated in a ballad written by the Victorian historian of County Durham Robert Surtees who wrote - Hoot awa' lads, hoot awa', Ha' ye heard how the Ridleys and Thirlwalls and a', had set upon Albany Featherstonehaugh and taken his life at the Deadmanshaw. There was Williemontswick and Hardriding Dick and Hughie o' Hawden and Will o' the wa' I canno tell a' I canno tell a', there was many a mair that the Devil may knaw - The verse fooled Sir Walter Scott who thought it was a genuine ancient ballad
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Another source actually said that an alternative pronunciation is Festonhay, and there are people of that name who insist on that pronunciation.
Начало Тема Форум Российского общества Вудхауза / О П.Г.Вудхаузе / Feathersonehaugh

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