History of Northwich the salt from the brine. Salt pans and 1st-century brine kilns have all been found around the Roman fort. The association with salt continues in the etymology of Northwich. The "wich" (or wych) suffix applies to other towns in the area - namely Middlewich, Nantwich and Leftwich. This is considered to have been derived from the Norse, "wic", for bay and is associated with the more traditional method of obtaining salt from evaporating sea water. Therefore, a place for making salt became a wych-house; and Northwich was the most northern of the Wich towns in Cheshire. The existence of Northwich
Suffix (name) terms: Estate, Deceased, Orphan, Widow, "" (French), etc. Generational suffixes are used to distinguish persons who share the same name within a family. A generational suffix can be used informally (for disambiguation purposes, or as nicknames) and is often incorporated in legal documents. In the United States the most common name suffixes are senior and junior, which are written with a capital first letter ("Sr." and "Jr.") with or without an interceding comma. In Britain these are more rare, but when they are used the abbreviations are "Snr" and "Jnr", respectively. The term Jr. and II can both be correctly