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English patronymics fall into three common types: 1) the father's name alone, John Will; 2) the father's name plus possessive -s , John Williams or Wills , meaning, in effect, William's John; and 3) the father's name plus -son , John Williamson or Wilson .
¹The first anthology was entitled Pubs, Place-Names and Patronymics: Selected Papers of the Names Institute, edited by E. Wallace McMullen (FDU, 1980. Covers 1962-1979.) and is still in print.
Many of the resulting forms remain current as nicknames (or indeed as names in their own right), others are preserved only in patronymics, and still others have vanished entirely.
That is important because many familiar patronymics are based on otherwise obsolete nicknames, as we shall see.
For example, over 285 names appear under George . Moreover, within each entry the names are broken down according to form and structure--for example, variants, cognates, diminutives, augmentatives, patronymics, and patronymics from diminutives-- with further classification (according to language) and comment.