Forbes and Forbush Genealogy : The Descendants of Daniel Forbush, Who Came From Scotland About the Year 1655 and Settled in Marlborough, Mass; In 1675 PDF
by Frederick Clifton Pierce
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Personal traits, and complexion, too, gave rise to surnames.
From the former we have the names Stout, Strong, Long, Longman, Longfellow; and from the latter, Brown, Black, etc.
Some mental and moral traits were also used to denote surnames.
Richard the First, of England, was better known as Richard of the Lion Heart.
The next step would be to derive from this quality the surname Lion.
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