The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-10-21

Mating how we pronounce the Ia colonel.
!, n,ioh, he supposcd that similar process
would deduce Corrie. Cory. CnrrIe, curry,
curridep. and Curran from Colley. tne
dlmiuutIye of Cole. But colonel was at nrst
coronsi, and Il Is s,iII so speltin Spanish. lts
meaning was the commander OF certain
number OF men, called corona. or crown.
And observing that we sometimes cnanRe
Harry 10 Hal and Mary TO Molly, ana that
John Chipaman converts American INTO
I" Mclean we may see that although rmay
become [, the converse Is not phonebc
fact, Accordingly we must md some otner
origin for the names above mentioned.
we have q surname Corr (whence, per-
hans. Crosby, which we suppose 10 De
variation OF Carr and Kerr. In welsh car
which sometimes takes the form gar, 10 nc
cordance with the principles tbat govern
the euphonIc Infection OF the Celtic ian-
gusees, means "a kinsman;" and as sur
name IL Is thus equivalent to our Cousin
and Cozzens. We have 1t patronymica'Iy
as Carson, Garrison. Corson, and McCorry.
Other forms are Cary. Gary, Geary, oerfy'
Kersev (Ker's islapd). Corse, kerse, Near
new fKerr's island. Kershaw. Carnes, "a
ron, Darlington, Kere, Csryl, and carroll
which last three, with Currell and dorrel',
mean Cars hill. Ccrnett. Garnet, Cornick,
and Garllck (?) are dIminutives. Gordon
and Gordon are Iocativcs. Corneh we
suppose to be corruption oil Carneai,
which is "knsman Neal" SO Carlyle Is
.. kipsman Lyle," II IL Is not, as It's vario.
nym Carlisle would suggest dcrivalive OF
The German Karl. meaning "the island OF
Charles as Carlton (Cbarton) means
" Charles Town." Carmichael Is "kins-
man Micbeal Though we have heretofore
suggested another possible etymology. Iar-
rigan is perhaps "kinsman Reagan" The
first syllable OF Garfield, Garmore, ana Gar
land is shortened from the Morse gdrh,
+" an enclosure"; which appears in iu'i 10
Cartwright, and raises query whether
Cartwright is always O surname OF occupa-
ton.
There are several Morse personal names
which have left records OF themselves in our
surnames, though existing nowhere else IN
our nomenclature. Thus Hiarn has given
us Ucarne. Hersman, and Herndon, (don Is
- bill-fort,") together with Horn and the
somewhat rare Iron. Ireton (CromwelPs
geueraD may have reasonably traced his an
cestors back 10 some town founded on the
coast OF Britain by the Danish CHIEF Harn !;
and we think that Heron and Herring are
more probably due to the same old viking
than TO the bird and the fish simulated by
the appelIations.
Another OF these old pirates was lamb,
i'm whose name there turks quiet irony.
We cannot say (ior we know nothing about
him that he was " mild hammered rogue
as ever scuttIed ship or cut a throat; but
we can hint TO our modern Lambs, and es-
pecially to our belligerent Mayor OF Nor
folk. that perhaps the founder OF some OF
their families was 10y no means so meek as
the appearance Of his name would indicate.
Neither were our friends Lamkin and
Lumpkin necessarily named from their pro-
pensity to playful gambols; they are IT.
ninutives OF lamb; and Lumsden Iamb'
DIM Inhabited IA woody hollow more suita-
bic for wolf than for the fleecy frolicker OF
the meadows. Lambeth and Lambert are
other names due 10 our seafaring hero.
From Hogni, another old soaking. who
has left record Of himself in the village
name Hagnaby, evidently come our sur
names Ogg and Ogden, Hoagland, Hogan,
and Hagan; and it may be that our Hogg,
Hoag, Hogue, and Hoge mot Hodge, which,
with HodssoD, Hodges, Hodgkins, and
Hoichkiss, is from Roger are descended
from the aforesaid Morse persoDym olteDer
than from some ancestor whose gluttony or
whose greed gave occasion for tue applica-
ton of the name. In the "AIice te Hog"
and "Philip te Hog" OF the Hundred Rolls
we are bound TO recognize a descriptive
name; but in Richard del Hog" as an old
writ Of Parliament gives il, we must have
resident at "tbe Sign OF the Hog" or the
Bears Head Tavern. We cannot suppose
that the numerous wearers OF the surname
Hogg and its variations are all due to an
opprobious nickname. Recognizing In Hog
sett both the possessiye infection and a
diminutive suilix, we see clearly that it must
be derived from personal name; and
Hackett and Hackley are also most probably
from Hogni. Applying the diminutiye Kan
we would have Hogkins, which exists under
the forms OF Hoskins and HaskiDs (uDless
the latter is for Hankins, "little John's,")
aud sometimes, perhaps, Haw kins, although
this is more frequently, we believe, a cor
ruptiou OF HaIkins ("little HaPs y in which
the is silent as in Walker.
Walker, by the way, was not OF old the
name of any champion Pedestrian, but OF
one whose business it was TO tread or
"full" cloth, of which ancient practice
mention is made by Piers Plowman, when
be aays:
"CIoth that cometh fro the wevying
IL ucught comelv TO wear
TIL II be Jttlied under foot;
or, In fullying stokes
Washen wei with WATER" &C.
Wvklyffe, also, in relating Chrisfs trans