Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-11-30
FAMILY NOMENCLATURE

nay parting with it.
FAMILY NOMENCLATURE.
The following extracts are from a new En-
glish work, bearing the above title, from the pen
OF Mark Antony Lower:
''When worthy Master Hern. famous for his
living, preaching, and writing. lay on his death
! bed, (rich only in goodness and children his
wife made womanish lamentations, what would
become of her little ones? Peace, Sweetheart, -
said he, that God who feedeth the Ravens will
not starve the Herns' (Herons) ga speech, says
Fuller, "cansured as light by some, observed by
others as prophecal, as indeed it came to pass,
! they were all we'll disposed of"--akin to this.
Were the words Of John IIuss at his burning ;
wao fixing his eyes steadfastly on the spectators
said with solemn voice. They burn goose
| but in a hundred years Soan will arise out of
| the ashes, words which many have regarded as
prediction of the retormer of Eisleben the
name of Huss, signifying Goose, and that of
! Luther, S,0dn,"
The following is Of a more humorous cast
| GAS Mr.. Jay the eminent non-conformist of Bath
and his friend Mr.. Fuller were taking an evening
walk, an owl crossed their path, on which MIR.
Fuller said to his companion, " Pray sir, is that
bird aJdyt' "No sir, was the reply, sit is not
like jay--it is fuller in the eyes, and fuller in
tHe Hcd0, ana TNUer all over.
. 1t is related in Collins Peeragc. that a GER
tain unmarried lady once dreamed of finding
nest containing seven young fnches, which in
course of time was realized by her becoming the
wife of Mr., Finch and the mother of seren chill
dren. From one of these nestlings is descend
the present earl of Winchelsea, who still retains
the surname of Finch
at is an inquiry not devoid of some interest:
! What would the annals of mankind and the rec
| ords OF biography be, if people had never borne
proper names "Sine nOnqile homo non est
In the first ages of the world a single name
was sufficient for each Individual n0nael OHM
dpud OnHeS fere genteS Sinpler and that name
was generally invented for the person, in alluson
| to the circumstances attending his birth or TO
some personalq quality he possessed, or which his
parents tondly hoped he might in future possess.
The Greeks commonly named their infants on
! the tenth day after birth, on which occasion, a
| hosptabe entertainment was given by their pa
rents to their friends and sacrifices were offered
to the gods. Thus, i'll the Birds" of Aristo-
planes, we read,
On the tenth day offered sacrifice
And as Il chd's her name imposed"
OF sur names, Du Casge says thew were at
first written, not in direct line after the Chris
tain name, but above it, between the lines, and
hence they were called in latin, SUprdnOnaia, in
Italian, SupraRonle, and in French, SuYn0ms-
" over Names" Those who contend for the non
Identity of the two words, assert that although
every sir-nane is a surname, every surname is
not slr-namC-a question which | shall not tar
ry to discuss.
The 1ighanders of Scotland employed the
sir-name with Mac, and hence our Macdonalds,
and Notwithstanding, respectively, the son
of Donald and of Arthur. The Irish had the
/ pan /,Dro I,h1, J. ~ I
! ages,) of pretiXiug Oy or o. signifying grandson
as O'Hara, O'Neale-a form still retained in
many llibernian surnames.
| Its related in the Encyclopedia. Perthensis,
! that an antiquated Scottish dame used to make it
a matter of boasting, that she had trod the earth
! long enough to possess one hundred Dyes.
! Many OF the Irish also use Mac. According
to the following distich the titles Mac and O. are
not merely what the iogicianS call accidents but
altogether essential to the very being and sub
stance of an irishman:
Per Mac que o, tn cognoscis Hbornos
His dnobus dcmpts nuIIus Eibcrnus adesL
Which has been translated:
by Mac and o,
You'll always know
! True lrishmen, they say
For lf they lack
Both O. and Mac,
No Irshmen they"
The old Normans prefixed to their names the
word Fit a corruption of Fills, and that de-
rived from the Latin Filius, as Fitz-Hamon, FitZ-
! Gilbert. The peasantrv of Russia, who are
some centuries Behind the same class in other
countries, aiiix the termination ''NNitz," (Which
seems to have some affinity to the Norman Fitz,)
to their names: thus Peter Pauowitz, for Peter,
the son of Paul. The Poles employ SKY in the
same sense, as James Perowsky, James, the son
of Peter.
Until comparatively recent period, not sur
/ nominal adjunct was used in Wales, beyond Gp
or son. as Dayid-ap-Howel Evan-ap-Rhvs, Grit
fith-ap-Rogcr, John-ap- Richard, now very natu-
rally corrupted into Powell, Price, Prodgcr and
Pritchard. 1t was not unusual, even but a cen
| fury back to hear of such combinations as Ev-
p-Gritlith-ap- Davld-ap-Jenkn, and so on to
the seventh or eighth generation, so that an indi-
vilual carried his pedigree in his name. The
following curious description of a Welshman
occurs ) Henry 8 "AIorgane Phillip alias Nor
gano vap-David yap-Phillip."
The church of Langollen. in Wales. is said
to be dedicated to St Collen-ap-G wynnawg-ap-
| ClynLawg-ap- Courda-ap- Observation-Disclosures APP
LYNN. NIerm-ap- Einon-I -ap-Cunedda-Wl
dig. name that casts that of the Dutchman
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, into the
shale.
To buresque this ridiculous species of nom
enclature, some mountaineering wag de-
scribeI cheese as being
Adams cousin german by its birth,
Ap-Curds-ap-M Milk ap- c ow -ap-Grass-ap- Earth"
An Engshman, riding one dark night among
the mountains, heard cry of distress, proceed.
ing apparently from man who had fallen into d
rayine near the highway, and on listening more
attentively, heard the words, Help, master
help, in voice truly Cambrian. Help! what
who are You - inquired the traveller. "Jen
kn-ap- Griifith-ap- Robn-ap -William-aP-Reesa p
Evan" was the response. Lazy fellows, thai
We be- reoined the Englishnan, setting spurs
TO his horse, 'to lie rolling in that hole, half {
dozen Of We, why, in the name of common sense
don't help one another out p
/ FLoRIDA-It is the well understood purpose
Of the government to remove the remainder o