Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-09-24
ORIGIN OF MANY FAMILY NAMES.
One Name Once suffeed-ntroeueon Of surnemes an
Their Heredty

before name beginning with a v,-y1i
h~ IN many instances become lucornnr.
atti Win ". Thus "Ap.fIurh" v,ss
given a. 'Pugh;" "Ap.Rico." apu,s.s
Ap-owen," Bowen" "An-rvs, p"
bevani "Ap-Nlchird" "pfitch,rd."
, 40 ,,u.n.pntey." Y umphtey." Or "Ap-
The Norman patronymic yas f,,r,,t
similarly NJ the welsh. by a pfaax iI,i
Of "ntx." hic modern French mia" enc,
names - this class wcr AZ 0fst s,In
mon. Thus. we Ind such uamss u
"Fltz-Glhbons." Pit. Gerald" "Ft,,
Patrick" Fitz-warvin." Fi,z.usuf.,
,iltk-Payn'" "Fi,z-Rchard." OF "Fiil.
Emery. though not utterly rorro,,.,
a. personal name, ilves on AZ sur.
name. u was once no unlmrlrttnt
eobrlquet America. Almeflc. Almarir
Emeric of Elmerlc seem DO have been
ts original Epclllngs In England, and Il
reminds US that Il 10 thc same name 10
which. In the italian form Of Amcrlg5.
we owe the title OF this continent. cur.
ter forms hiatt these are found In Ayi.
mar, Allmnr. Almnt, Aymar and Amar.
The Hutnames bequeathed BY u are not
few. ~ has had the free run u the
vowals In the Amnrys. Em1fys aud
imalys. ana In . more patronymic form
We often meet with Il In the Emersnns.
Embcrsons and Imcrsons.
The name % Robert was early prom.
nent IN pubic favor. From % came
RohariH, Robertson. Robins Robinson.
Robson and Robfou From ~ short.
eued Dob are D0hh1. p1baon and Dob.
elns DobinEon and Duhir1ns and from
flom the equally familiar Hob are
Hobbs. HobFon. Hobblns. Hopkins and
Hopklnson. From The welsh too. We
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Ap.Roblnrrobcri and prohin.
Roger. Ralph and Hugh arc thrct
familiar Norman names From tho ftat
we get such titles a. R1rcrs. Wolrsra
and Rogers, aud from Hodge. its
nlcknamoa, hodges, iIodgklns, Hnjch-
klna. iloskins iiodEkInfon. IIodga1n
aud ilodsun. From Ralph We have rr-
ccived of RATS. Raves. Rawf1ns. Roll
linsons. Hawkins Rapkins and R1ps1ns.
The spolllngs % Hugh were various.
with Norman writer's u ia Hughes.
Among the more general pl,ronymlcs
formed from u are Hugglns, Hutchins.
Hutchinson. Hewlett, Hulleit. Hewlett.
tlewrt tigwcsinn. Hewitt. Howson,
Hughes and Hewsnn.
From Richards We gei Richards. Rich-
afdfin. Kckrcu. Richards UckgtH.Utc.,
and from Dick we derive Dicks or nix.
Dickson VI Dixon, DlcklnH and Dick1n-
fon.
The urnnmca that have descended 20
Va from William and John are nearly
numhcriUaa In the former case. beside
tho simple Williams and Williamson,
thore are Will wills, Willis. and VIII
son; from the dimlnutlve Oulilomoi OF
Guilnt. a. n f. often spelled IN Oldest
records. Gillot. elliott and Gilletti or
from wllilamot. the more English form
Willlim0t. the moro English form OF
the same. Wlllmot. Wllmot. Willot,Nll-
lett. ana Willctt, also Wllka, wilkins,
wilkinson, wilcox. Weeks, Wlckens'
Wlckonson. Biii and nliaon. Fro. John
We derive Jones, Johnson. JonHon. jen-
klns. Jennings. JenklnHon, Jackson ava
Jenks. The above are only a few " tho
pairOnymic surnamcs. but host OF
common turnames have similar
origin.
Tho Saxon add,d "son" as a dlsl-
nencs, a. williamson" that II, will
Hams SON." or "Balderson." that 10.
"naldwin'E son." or merely the apos.ro-
pine. a. Williams or Richards. This
class has been wonderfully enlarged by
the custom then In vogue. as now, of
reducing every hiptismal name 20 some
curt aud familiar mon0syllablc. This
gives clew az once 20 the cxiraordln-
AIRY number OF patronymlca our dlrec-
sorles contain VI these shnr, and cur
David" gives u Dawson or Dawes
"Hikke." from Isaac, lllekton or
Hicks; waite" from walter. watson
or watts
a large addition was made to hi. cat
rgory by the Introduction u a further
clCmeHg. This arose from the nursery
practice u giving pet names. In early
days the three chic: dlmlnutiyes IN use
were those OF kin" cock" and the
termination AT" or "et." eh0Hc latter
being 81 Norman origin. KIN" the
old Saxon kim" child or offspring. and
introduced most probably, 80 far ns
the immediate practice was concerned.
by the FlemmingH, II atill preserved In
such words ns manlkln, pipkin. lamb
kin or doitkln. The nursery literature
secured IN It's cockroblns. cockboRtH
and cockhorsea the Immortality Of the
second. Thus from Simon we get
Slmpklna ami SlmcnN. from Oeoffrcy.
jenkins and JeffcoekH from Williams.
wilkins, Wilcox and willott or wlllctt:
from Mary, Marriotti from Elias Eli-
ptt, from Emma or Emme. Emmett
or Emmott. from Ralph. llnwlins. etc.
oa NJ a root word impllcatlve of
deity has made for itself "a firm place
In the OawinH. OHwulds, Oabornea and
osmunds,. The Harveya or Harvies
are the deaecndanta OF some old Nor
man fnfNes Ut names specially lntro-
ducsd at the conquest. or that received
an impulse By that evont.few we're more
popular than that Of WARM, or Ouarln.
or Guerin. the latter form at present
generally found In France. IL In the
rohriquet that II Incorporated In the
ancient Mnnncrlngf, OF Main. warnings.
q family that came from the manor OF
WARM, In day whom that was a fa-
milinr Christian name In Norman
households, Tho Warclngs. Warnings
Wnrlsons. Wasons ana Fitz- WARNS
often written -Warrens, not TO
mention the majority OF the Warrens.
are other Of the descendants OF this
famous old name.
Next ltr Us consider the local sur
NAMES. In nearly every country where
prsonal nomenclature has assumed a
sure ana settled basis. that IA, where
second or surname has become an
hereditary posse sslon IN the family. We
SHAH md that thar portion OF q which
Is OF local origin bears by far toe larg-
est proportion 10 the whole. Prenxes
Of various klnds were at FIRST freely
used TO declare more particularly
whence the nominee was sprung Thus
II he were come from some town or
city. he would be william OF York or
John OF Bolton, Familiarity pronounced
william a York or John a Bolton. This
Of course. n met In France By de, as IL
was also on English soil during early
Norman times H. on the other hand
the situation only OF the abode gave Tho
personality Of the nominee, the CONNER.