Chapter XII

) that monosyllabic, and some other, surnames of local origin frequently take an -s, partly by analogy with names like Wills, Watts, etc. We rarely find this -s in the case of occupative names, but Parsons, Vicars or Vickers, and Monks are common, and in fact the first two are scarcely found without the -s. To these we may add Reeves ( Chapter XVII ), Grieves ( Chapter XIX ), and the well-known Nottingham name Mellers (