Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1880-10-23
How Patronymics Grow.
INSTA Noes WHICH SHOW THE ORIGI \
OF CERTAIN FAMILIAR NAMES


OF CERTAIN FAMILIAR NAMES.
One OF the sonnet which Spenser
has prefixed to his Fairit Queen" is
inscribed ITO the Right Noble and
NalOrous Knight, Sir Walter Raleigh,
Lord Warden of the Summaries and
Lieutenant Of Cornwall.' Here we
have "A hint of the origin of u sur
name Stannard. The "stannaries"
were the tin mines Latin stannuI1,
tin of Cornwall and other parts of
Britain. I'm those early times, when
the merchants of Tyre and Sidon led
the commerce of the world, the Php-
nicians, it is well known, had opened
in Britain mines of this metal; and,
subsequently, during the four centuries
OF the Roman occupancy of the island,
these were industriously and remuner-
atively worked by the conquerors of
h world. We have only to suppose
that the Celtic inhabitants of Cornwall
retained, after the departure of their
masters, the name which they had
heard applied to the tin mines, and
atterward, during the period of the
Saxon heptarchy, the officer whose
business it was to oversee the working
of these mines was called the stannarv-
warden, stannard or Stanard. In like
name the guardian of the woods has
become our Woodward or Woodland.
So, also. the proper names Bernard and
Berard remind us of the time when the
bear-warden was an important officer
for providing the people with the
amusenents of bear-baiting. Every
medieval Baron had his bears and his
"~bere-ward' (such is the spelling in
old ballads, and Eve royalty must
have its master of the bears Again,
we have Durward (Scott's hero
synonymous with Usher, Dorman and
Porter, whose business it was to guard
theidoor Of his lords castle or mansion
against the informal approach of
strangers. We find 'Geoffrey lie Dore-
ward in ahe Hundred Rolls and
Nicholas Doreman'' in the Issues of
-the Exchequer, and in the ancient
metrical account. of the bringing of
Christ before Caiaphas it is said of John,
when he wen to fetch Peter.
He bid the dureward
Let in his fere traveller.
ir.ctio Of = lie Garderober," which the
SAXON metamorphosed in wardropere,
:s III tie following direction given by
the "H ok of Curtasye:' The us
>h.re >rhalle bydde the wardropere
make r,lv for allie, night before they
f.-c" tnl.el1. When we consider the
gorgtau~ilt~> and varied array of me-
di:rNal costume We "a we'll under
sand how the services of a special Off
Ger Were required y superintend my
lord : Wardrobe. Another ancient war
der Wa~ the NJ reward. or Mormon,
whose occupation ~ttni> to have been
the am tlaa1 ii the Rider, or Raider.
a We MAY lnfer from the speech of the
King II the gallant archer IN tho bal
lad ot William of t~luuI.,lev."
give thee eighteen renee a day.
And tet>e f1ot3 sian, here.
>nt"1I oyer In. north couL,re
nttk- the,t c.asf~ ryd~rr.
From l1aroniaI Iall~. going out int.
the fields. :. it.ttt WITH The hayward.
or i, hey wari, a it i in the Humid
red Rolls" who~e .iu,y ii was Ia guar,
the cattle tllal -r ze-i N the villa.,
common, aud secpthtm i.oIu breaking
down tine h.ie> or A~exl-e-, \ hay
Was nothing hut i "t,ti-c. ~ may b.
seen III the following. rom Chaucer's
"Trnllu-:
But right - a. these holes Tickets ant
these hayes heige>.
That hose III winter dead been ana dry.
RrNe>teu them ia Srrsr when tIat May is
When every tasty tea~i Iissetil 10 tlsy.