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Many family names are patronymics, so called because they are based on the first name of some long-ago father.
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.
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 .
That is important because many familiar patronymics are based on otherwise obsolete nicknames, as we shall see.
But Gib, Phip , and Wat survive in patronymics: Gibson, Gibbons, Gibbs; Phipps; Watson, Watkins, Watts .