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l E1uklduo 10 a ncIBOuAl or kAIully udNie 1t almost invarfable denoted illegiti- mate descent. Thus Fitz-James was the natural son of James II of England l and the surname of his descendants; Fitz-roy. the natural son of Henry l, and the surname of his descendants. Similarly the Fitz George. Fitz Her | bert and Fftzharding families have B bar sinister on their escutcheons. Thfs | is. of course not the case with, such families as brought the name from Normandy, c. g., the Fitz Randolphs. | Fitz Sinlons. etc
 Fitx Patrick presents a case some- | what different from either of the above, Soon after the advent of Chris tfanity into the island 1t became the custom of the Irish to adopt some sur name from the name of some saint or holy man with the prefix gioila. boy | servant" So Giolla Phadruic was the servant or devotee of Patrick" and | this name was afterwards anglicized | as Fitz-Patrlck. The family claim descent from the ancient monarch of Ireland.
 The Latin illus, parent of Fitz. is derivative of the verb felare. ito suck; ;" hence hlius is "a sucking" Among the cognates are the Lettish dels, "a son." Greek thelys, "female:" thele, breast. nipple;'' Lithuanian dele leech" lliterally. the sucksr); Irish del. nipple, dng." delech, '.milch cow;" Gaelic and Irish deal. "a leech." Gaelic deoghail. to suck" Old High German tila, female breast" Old Morse dilkr, "a lamb;" Old HSlavonic dele, ''sheep;" Sanskrit dharus. sucking" From the same radical came Latin femina. "wo- man, and the Ipdo-European words l, for daughter.
 cius, is cognate with the Oscan .patir, Umbrian pater, Greek pater, Gothic fa- dar, Old High German fater, Old Morse father, Old Saxon fadar, Dutch vader and vaars Anglo-Saxon faeder. English 1ather. Irish athir, Gaelic athair. Ar menian hair. Old Slawonlc, Old Persian. ANestan and Sanskrit pita, all meaning Iatner. The radical may be pa. 'to protect" hence father means .'protec- tor; or 1t may be connected with the nursery word papa. of which the pa is Widespread and, almost universal.
 Forrest.
 The original bearers of this local surname received 1t because of their l residence in or near a forest The home of the name seems to have besn In worth. England as it appears as del rorest and de Forest in the Yorkshire poll tax list of 1879 and now is found especially in Lancashire and the Low lands of Scotland.
 The term comes into English from me Oid French forest. "a forest" from 1the Latin forestis (slIva s'the outaide wood" that is. that lying outside of me walls of the park. an open or un- ienced wood. Medieval writers on. pose the forestis to the walled-in wood or parcus Jour park). Brachet quotes document to the effect that Forests sst uoi sunt ferae non inclusae; parcus. locus ubi sunt ferae Inclusae."
 The adjective forestis is from the Latin foris. "out of doors," abroad ]" rom forfs, door," The co1natas of this are found all over the Indo- Euro- Pean territory, from the dvar ffor onVar) of Sanskrlt and Avestan. durn oL.tne Armenian and dere of the AL anlan' through the thura Of the Greek oyuru of the Old Slavonic, the Prus, san dauris. Lettisl duris, and Ifthuan- lan ourys, to the daur of the Gothic. tor ot the Old High German, the ola Saxo aura, Anglo-Saxon dor, English door ana the Cymbric arws and Irish dorus. all meaning door" -
 Forrest is the predominant spelling l ol tne surname, in which the "rr,' is due to Middle English variant of Ina | common noun
 l FoSTER-This is an official snr. name as It is an early abbreviation of iorester the custodian of a forest '
 Manwood, about 1900. thus describes .he Iorester An officer made by let l sworn to preserve vert and yenison in me forest; and to attend upon tbe u,,,s beasts within his baiIfwicl. to sttaa,l oHenoers thefe either Tn vert or vant Soh' and 10 present the same at +ba courts Of the Forest, that thev may hs punished according to the duantitv ana quality :, of their offenses and tres
 The Middle English carly c,,nnoa forester into forster and then into logue, writes: ie fo- "A forster was he, soothly, as sesse. .p saaa d9 the Romaunt of the Rose. I. Now I31ss Irsst' now clerk. and now for
 The variant foster (e) is fonnd |, both passages in some Mss. 'A -Spenser, in The Faerle ouasna .. CHI. V, 50), writes:
 And .still the, foster with his long Ear Earlier Ter, in the century we find in
 Forty fosters of the fe |
 A"ese oatlawes had y-slaw"
 The surname Foster. howeevr is s,n' oloer as It is found with this sneIiins on the Yorkshire Poll Tax List oF Ia7a Here also we find Forester and Forste- The Hundred Rolls (1273) have Earss tarlus and le Forester, the forrer os Book. Oolnesday
 Foster Is the prevailing form now In England and Is especially strona- " yorkshire and Nottinghamshire For ster Is found principally in tba nortb land. -'' per-
 The name Is derived from tba old French forestier. "a forester" from n ha Old French forest, of which 'tha hI. Forrest. NNe ieAie
 MERCER. MERcIER-Tbis occun. tNe surname. indicates Tne keeper or a general store, the dealer in merchandise of any and all kinds the merchant who combines the busi, ness of the grocer, draper. hatter clothisr. druggist. stationer. haber, dasher, undertaken, etc Such a com. bination Is not rare in the country dis tricts of either England or America The name. however. in this sense sur- wives in the surname.
 The word mercer later became snA- cialized and confined in time to ths dealer In cloths and especially mo nopolized by the dealer in silk
 The surname appears as le Mercer m the Hundred Rolls Q273 for cano- bridgeshire. Oxfordshire and Lincoln shire. The Yorkshire Poll Tax List G379 Indicates that both the trade and the surname were established l there. Kent and Iancas sbfra ar. +bo