Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-08-18
MEANING OF NAMES.
Washington Was Originally Wcssyng
Grants ratronymic.

Air Arthur gives the derivation and
meaning Ui nearly every uuW' 300 CONE
mon us. among the American people,
Washington, be anyF, was originally
MuaHy urtuu. and was tukHu from the
place boo England whore the family ORIG
limited. from wells ur wash. "a creek
setting BOO from the 900, the shallow
part ul u river, ling means a. meadow
ur Iuv ground, ana ton the town uu
salt crock
Arthur. his own name. means "a strong
man. from "ar' ,Art. VIZ, a. man, ana
Thor" strong, IN the Gaelic air IL
the same uE dear" "a man, ana the
ancient sDythIuuH called man 'ul0r.
Thor was tho Jupiter Of the TCuloule
races. their god of thunder IN Wrlsh
"urth" ls o. buur=Ju emblem ut strength
aud courage, ana "ur. noun tgfminu-
lion. "a man. Arthur" was bear man,
"a hero IL man Of strength, the name VI
British prince.
Tho patrouymicGrnnt Is treated thus;
"Gnut=uf this name pluynlr re
marks that 10 may De derived from the
saxon. Irish OF French. In the Saxon
Grant Hlru.upi crooked OF bowed.
Thus Cambridge, the town ana uni-
yprrIty uf England so called, signifies a
crooked bridge. ur rlthor "a bridge upon
cam river. The SnNonH called thlH
town Grant Bridge, cam IN the Brit
in and grant in the saxon being tho
same fIguluunuvc=orpo
$50 Mons GrlmuhIuH. tho GumUhI1u
hUI. was called hy the SuNoua GrauE
Bon, or the crooked hill, but We cam
MOI 500 how from this Saxon word the
surname should br borrowed
"lu ho ola Irish grandpa signifies
dark. Fwarthy Grant" and char
Signify much the same thing, or are
anonymous words, and there being a
tribe uf the Grants called clan Ghiaran
10 o. the same nH clan Grant Thus the
surname might have been taken from
q proEynltOr that was CHAR OF Grant
that is TO say HWorthy or gray
bearded mun-and though IN time Grant
became the common ana prevailing
surname yet some always retained the
other name Chiurur-and are called
clan Chiarun.
brave, NulOrouE, and from thence many
are Inclined 90 think that the surname
Grant IN taken from grand, which In the
Irish ~ sounded short, and thereby the
letter "a az the end Of the word Us
changed into a. and thus Grand into
Grant. The surname. 10 seems, was thus
understood In England about 900 years
ugo, Tor Richard Grant was made Arch
bishop OF Canterbury In the year 1879
aud IS IN MI Aud0rsons genealogical
tables na well as by others expressly
called Richard Grant hut the English
tin. called him Richard Maguus. which
plainly shows that they took Grant 20
be the same with the French grand
ana the Latin 'muguus,' 20 which, let NJ
add, that IN the old wfits the article
the n put before tho surname Grant,
The name Couldlug IL said 90 be de-
rived from icon" bold, wise. knowing,
and "klein," little, or son-thnt g., the
son OF Con. "IlDnkelon" In Dutch Sign
lies to plot. intrigue, consplre. Clean
glcunn,' GogUr, "the head OF the Nal-
Icy"
blaine comes from the town Of Rlnin,
IN Bretagne, France. Mr.. Arthur FayHg
"Blacn Ia tho Welsh signifies the sum
init or top; tho same as PEN brig and
bar the highest part OF q mountuini
the end or top nf an object; tho inland
extremity OF "a glen; leader or chief"
Cameron means crooked, or crooked
nose, from the Gaelic "con," crooked,
and "crun." nose
John sherman name comes from "l
sherman, one who used % shear cloth.
VILLAIN, they father was pluHtoTor
and thoyHolf u fhtarmun,"
Jones n said TO be from the Hebrew
and 10 signify gracious.
Lincoln Ia from Lincoln In England.
The name i8 derived from 'lln" In the
Gaelic. Welsh and Cornish British,
which signifies O. pool, pond or lake aud
"uoln" the ridge or neck OF a hin. Fo
the top and side Of steep nm ON the
river William, which here divides into
three streams,
Gnrnald ia local Saxon, caravan"
90 prepare, German and Dutch, "Ear."
dressed done ready prepared, and
"npld," place whore everything ls
flushed necessary Tor an army.
Bliss ln English ls happy name,
Imposed hy others on thH Individual
"Blys' in the welsh signifies deriving.