The surname of BABER was a locational name 'of Baber'. Baber is a familiar Devon and Cornwall surname. In the 12th century there was a place of the name recorded in County Cornwall. Early records of the name mention BABER (without surname) recorded in the year 1198, County Cornwall. Henry Babre of the County of Cambridgeshire in 1273. Richard Baber of Yorkshire, was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. Alice, daughter of Edward Baber was baptised at St. James's, Clerkenwell, London in 1570. Francis Baber of Cornwall was registered at Oxford University in 1582. John Baber and Jane Whitlocke were married at St. Michael, Cornhill, London in 1601. Edward Baber was documented in the County of Somerset in the year 1621. Noah Baber and Susan Monk were married at St. George's, Hanover Square, London in the year 1757. The bulk of European surnames in countries such as England and France were formed in the 13th and 14th centuries. The process started earlier and continued in some places into the 19th century, but the norm is that in the 11th century people did not have surnames, whereas by the 15th century they did.The acquisition of surnames in Europe during the past eight hundred years has been affected by many factors, including social class and social structure, naming practices in neighbouring cultures, and indigenous cultural tradition. On the whole, the richer and more powerful classes tended to acquire surnames earlier than the working classes and the poor, while surnames were quicker to catch on in urban areas than in more sparsely populated rural areas. These facts suggest that the origin of surnames is associated with the emergence of bureaucracies. As long as land tenure, military service, and fealty were matters of direct relationship between a lord and his vassals, the need did not arise for fixed distinguishing epithets to mark out one carl from another. But as societies became more complex, and as such matters as the management of tenure and in particular the collection of taxes were delegated to special functionaries, it became imperative to have a more complex system of nomenclature to distinguish one individual from another reliably and unambiguously. The associated coat of arms is recorded in Sir Bernard Burkes General Armory. Ulster King of Arms in 1884. |
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