The Press., 1884-03-06
LOCAL ToPIcs-PENN'D AND sClssoRED
FAMILIAR FAMILY NAMES.

LOGAL IOP1CS-PENN'D AND SCESSOkED.
 FAMILIAR FAMILY NAMES. s== 1 Among the family names of Holland County east, the majority of the oldest are English, as the earlier settlers were from D stern Mass. From Plymouth County the Amidons, (Rohoboh was the mother town the Dimocks,e (found on the Barn. stable town records as Dimmack or Dimacke, later Dimmick, ) came from Eng-s IanG, though the former were probably originally of French extraction and the latter are Welsh. @ s--
 As to the meaning of the present names, A-born means ''at the brook, from the To- cation of his dwelling; Alden, ancient valley: Ald-rich, old ridge; Ban-ford, tree ford; Barlow, barley hill Barrows, wooded hlll Beck-witll, brook farm Be- | be, bee dwelling Bentley, bent grass dis tict; Bid-well, holy well; Blod-gett, bloody way Bosworth, stall farm; Bot ton, flat valley; Read, by broad, open dis rict; Brooks, at the brook; Bur-ley, cottage or city d strict; Burn-ha brook hamlet Butterfeld carries it's own inter- preta ion Cltave-land, cave land; C.l- burn, coal brook; Cong-don, kings hill ton, water village Eldridge, old ridge ;; Fair field, a fair or fertile field; Fen-ton, fen or marsh village; Good il, good hall Hall, great stone house; Har-wood, forest of the army Hol-brook, grove brook Holmes, little island Holt, grove; Reyes. wharf Knowl ton, village on knoll; La throp, wide e-feld-village Lee, clearing or op n pasture; Max-ham, Mack's hamlet (Mack Is Scotch Mac, son); Mpd-bery meadow city Moul-ton, mill village, or village on the Mole river; New-eomb, new valley; Newell, new hall or mansion Preston, priest villege; Sib-ley, dwelling of the relatives or alliance; South-wick, shelter; Sou h worth, south farm; Staf ford, ford of the staff or pole; Stanton, stone village; Stiles, at the stile or sta tionary fence Town, walled village; Up ton, upper vill'ge; Wake-fi~ld, field of burn, brook with gravel wash, or brook for washing; Whitaker, white or wheat Id Whit-ford, white ford. Among the Norman names of our English ancestors, Adams, from Hebrew Adam, red earth Andrews, Greek Andreas, hero; Ander- son, son of Andrew; Armitage, q hermit age; Arnold, eagles power Bartlett, lit tie Bartholomew, Svriac, warlike son B ,tchelder, young knight Bee-man, same as Beaumont, beautiful mountain Ben nttt, Latin Benedict, blessed one Camp bell, war camp Carpenter, a carpenter; Chamberlain, chief house servant and pri- vate adviser of a lord Chandler, candle maker; Chasa, game forest; Clark, clerk, scholar: Cortis, Curtis, courteous man i; Cummings, Comins, (Scotch) from Cor hines, near Lille, France; Ellis Norman Ellie, i. e. Elias, Eli -jah, Hebrew God the Lord; Elliott, little Elias Foster, keeper
 a game forest Gardner, gardner ;
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 lctor; How-l-'tt, Hu-lett, little Hugh,
 knan of mind; Lewis, famous war ; 1yon, lion; Marcy, favor, mercy j; Morse, (Old Fr.) a Moor Nichols, Greek Nicolaus, the peoples victory; Norris, a Norman, or nurse; Page, knights ser want; Painter, painter; Par-kess, one of the family of Pierre or Peter, Greek Petros, stone; Pierce, Pearce, i. e. Peter; Par sons, Pier-son, son of Peter Simonds, son of Simon Squier, Knights attendant ; Stephens, Stevens; son of Stephen, Greek, crown Taylor, (Scotch) a tailor; Ten lent, tenant; Thom(p)son, son of Thom- IS, Syriac, traiu Tiffany, Greek The >phanos, divine manifestation :; Warren enclosure for. game Williams, helmet of will, hence Wilson, Willis Woolis. craft. Williams Field
 | Genuine old English names from per-
 
 names as Baker, Barker (tanner) Bishop, Brewer and Brewster, Brown, Buck, (he- goat, gay felow); Carroll, peasant, Chapman peddl-r; Cook, Cr(e)amer, a tinker, Crane, Fisk Ca fish), Fox, Fuller, Ca full of cloth) Green Grover, Ca grove keeper); Hunt and Hunter, Kidder, a peddler, King, Knight, Larned or Learn ed, Lord, Miller, Parker, (park kepper) !; Potter, Red, Cred man); Kicker, Ia knighD; Sharp, Small, Smith, Spel, man, larrator or assistant Tyler, tile-layer Welch, Weaver and Webster, Wheeler a wheelwright; White and his Writings or Or Whitons; Wight-man, from the Isle of Wight; Winter, Wolf, Wright, mechan- c; and Young. From Scotch, Highlands 'I come Blair, open plain, Duncan, brown chief, Gary, fierce; from other Celtic sources, Allen, harmony, Booth, booth Griffith, ruddy; Kellogg, strife; Moore, great From old French, Ballou, beauti, full waters, Bolieau, birch tree J.NE THE DIMoCK FAMILY
 Originated in Flintshire, one of the north ern counties of Wales. A branch of the family removed to Worcestershire, one of the western counties of England, not far from 14OO A. D. There is still a parish of that name in that county. This branch become come cted with titled family in Lincolnshire, one of the sons marrying in- to it, aud by this means Sir John Dimock became attached to the retiniie of the king at the next coronation Sir John ap- peared as the champion of the king, chal- lengiug any enemy of the king to combat. The office was fixed upon Sir Johns fami- ly at successive coronations for 200 years or more, till the office was abolished. From Lincolnshire, apparently, came Thomas Dimock Cor Dmacke) to Boston, Mass, 1886, or thereabouts. In 1889 he had settlt d in Barnstable, Plymouth Go. He left son Shubael. Shortly after l 7O0 members of the family settled in Ashford Conn.,, the progenitors of the Dimoclzs oi Eastern Conn. J. N. E.
 -Willimantic Chronicle: Mrs. Fuller 6 wife of Dea. Andrew H. Fuller, who died 2 suddenly at her home on Pleasant street D last Sunday (March 24th) from nervous s prostration, possessed one of those kind 5 loving and unassuming natures which en deared her to all her acquaintances. She