The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11

man, Thornton' ShdhhetS' oeoieS' rant.
 Allied Names-Bird, Castellman, Chambers, Story. Storr, Durand.
 Byrd, Bird.
 Tn spite of every attempt to explain 1t otherwise, the surname Byrd and Bird is in It's origin nickname, ana signifies the bird"
 It is true that the early spelling of the name is Brid and Bryd, and that Brid is found twice in Anglo-Saxon documents as a personal name. This Anglo-Saxon Brid, however, is a hyp~ ocoristic form of Beorhtwuh tBrignt. wolf) and is connected with our BTU and Burt. but has nothing to do with Byrd.
 One fact alone is sufficient proof of this. The. surname is almost always found with the article le prehxed in early records and this article Is not prefixed to personal names used as natronvmics, This is decisive against the theory that Byrd is the son of The French article is no indication whatever in itself. of Norman origin of a surname, else Buck, Bull, Smith. Wright and a whole host of names ot unauestionable Anglo-Saxon origin would be Norman. The English at the time. initiating their conquerors. bor- vowed the article and it was in com mon use in the literature or the time. It was almost universally applied Tn the early surname period to namss having an occupative or official origin or arising from niclSnarnes. The name is not found on the Roll of Battle Abbev or any extant list of Norman names or in the Domesday noV can if be interpreted as Norman name.
 The name appears on the Hunareo RoIs of 1273 as 1e Brid. Bry; on the Yorkshire Poll tax List of 1873 as Rridde and in 1575 Robert le Brid' slias Bird" of Brixton, Cheshire, was granted a. coat arms. The usual supposition that the nich. t- name was first given because or tno mowers of vocalic song of him to whom if was applied. has nothing put sup position to maintain it. As well builo 2 theorv on the metaphorical lie bird's as on the simile, 'He sings ike hird." very different ideas.
 The following interpretatioh,. ,.s as on- 4troi1, nav but 1t is offered with con fdence as 1t is based on cohteHipot and not modern ideas. ,., so.. ,o. Tha Anglo-Saxon brid. bridd does not mean bird, but the young or oile or other animal" This neanihe A the word survived long lnto 'He se,io1,- name period as snoWh py
 Ing sva eui oddris (adders) and eddris brid- a,s n Wyclif (13ss A. D.) Mat : viii sa. ..in temperat yeres ben fe"e hyrdes or been" (bees.) .. 0a Iohn of Trevisa (I39Sl. Earth ss De' VII v.. AIS. "-All fysshe feae I.ane theyr byrdes." Ibid. AAi1.. nvi 45S. Even later we read or ts Ins sbvrdeso of foxes, wolves, Sei ipeHss' etc. S~aauantlv trans- ferred to man, meaning ctossn t%o ouotations from the Cursot Mwndi'S an old poem written apous ut 1ean in inc dialect of the North or England. to illustrate this.
 1Anticrist) "that tlk warlau Si' e-' warlock) brid." v. Szset' ,,,oIa "Quesum on suiik a oaro tSeSNS' thiTyi fWboso on such a bird would 'n1H we sbould conclude. then, that when Iohn or David or Henry was n Ine lime of the Hundred Rolls, etc. . resis. tered as le Brid le Bryo. etSe; Hsnrv 1r inc simply John, David or Henry, ene s,n;,pe; and was practically synonymous Win our John the Junior, etc: Tbs common noun in its spelling WeIl ,,,,,strstas the spelling of the surname. In the earlier Middle English perioo the spellings brid te), @ @prlauNe1, nt,,yS 9ry nrevail. In the fourteenth cent, I, ', T1he metathesis or transposition oI tne ..rS began and grew common Tn time, aisnIacine in about two centuries the earIier snellings. The spelling W!ln "" was common well into the SIX teenth century. .I,. I-ao1, ,,ords that seem to have fallen nke boIt from a cloudless philologlcal SKY. 1rtthout any one knowing whence It came It has no known cognates III any Teutonic or other language.
 English philologists have aoandoneo +ha ideal of it's etymological connection
 
 of its seemingly impossible phonetic A more recent hypothesis connects ,+ with "birth," the Anglo-Saxon ge- bvrd. old Morse byrthr, Gothic ga baurths, Irish birth, all meaning piI.n inc forth A bearing" Sanskrit bhrts' "a carrying, a bearing" etc..
 fin support of this it may be pointed ont that even in Anglo-Saxon times the oid Northumbrian dialect had bird TOT the brid of the other dialects. Phllol- ogy, like other sciences, mas her .SaSi.. ve"d sional vagaries and an early metathes's of fbe s.r'' in the Anglo-Sax followed bv its return to it's original place cen- turies later. may have been possiDle. The surname in the form Byrd is now rare in England outside or WoF- cestershire. The prlncipa5 hVlis VI Bird is in the east of EngIaho' espey ciallv In Norfolk. 1t is sporadic Tn some of the inland counIles ana III Dorset and Somerset
 Castleman.
 The official surname Castleman was originally bestowed upon one who was a castellan or constable of castle keipar of the Kingis Castell.
 Inasmuoh as no word castIemah IS found in the literature, 1t Is presum- able that the surname is corrupted form of castellan, the regular term In the meaning given, and itself sur name long before the appearance or Castleman.
 whether this be so or not, the mean ing Is the same and the origin simt. lar as Castleman is a compound or Castle and man and Custodian is derivative of castle.
 Castle is from the Latin castellum. "a castle, fort" which is a diminutive formation from castrum. "a cortlfca- tion fortified place." The history and origin of this latter word has been fully presented under Lancaster in Mo- VIII of this series.
 The surname appears as Castelman in Kirby's Quest Q327) .Castelein and Chasteleyn appear on the Hundred Rolls of 1273. .Castellane is the French equivalent.
 Thornton.
 Tbere are at least twenty-nine places +hat hear this name in England. At ieast sixteen of these are in York shire, all called Torentun in the