Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-28

Tho honorable family Of Glover who
sent representatives. to America. III the
very early emigrations, have had thei,
history and genealogy recorded by ono
of the American descendants; and so
excellent and brief is the recital OF the
conditions in England which gave rise
to the use of surnames under the reign
of William the Conqueror, that II is
here given i'm full.
To distinguish one family from an
other says the Glover historian, IL
became necessary to have some rue
adopted established by which to pre-
serve to their children the remem'
brance of their origin and race, and the
titles TO their estates. The Norman
mobiles first used surnames in England
to avoid confusion and the extinction
OF family origin--and surnames were
taken by some from the places from
which they came, from their Office or
their trades-and various other cir
c.umstances induced them to adopt
some surname. The Saxon race VINO
were living at that time under the rule
of the Norman kings, soon found IL not
only convenient but honorable. to adopt
the same rule, and Surnames became
universal throughout the Kingdom To
perpetuate the remembrance of their
the Conqueror, who invaded England
in 1866. caused a survey to be made
of his English kingdom, and record
to he kept OF all the estates as they
were then possessed and occupied with
the titles to them, and ordered that
this record should he made in a book,
called the Dooms-day Book and pre-
served in the Tower of London, to en-
able all persons who had desire to
know to whom these estates had once
belonged and other particulars in re-
lation to them. by examining that rec
ord book to obtain the desired inforlna
ton
Another rule or plan adopted by the
Norman Conqueror, was to appoint
competent persons, to whom he gave
the name of heralds or Norreys, and
sent them throughout his English king
dom to collect and preserve the origin
and pedigrees of all English, Sa%oH
or Norman families. These Vlsitations
were made not long before his death,
in A. ID. 1887. and the records OF all
such families as then existed. with theit
rank and pedigrees, were ordered to he
preserved in the Tower of London, and
NAV be, seen at the present time.
''These visitations were called Her
AIDS Visitations,' and continued to take
place once in about thirty years
through all succeeding reigns, for a
a..
In the times OF Edward /, II, and Ill.
The NoITeys, or kings of arns,as Burke
writes. were always attended through
out their circuit by a register 9
dlaughtsInan and proper attendants.
Titles came into use about this time
which were very convenient I'm desig-
mating persons and classes, as a KIND
of dignity granted the most worthy and
cnteipIising. Master was one OF the
earliest in use for expressing lordship
according TO tho definition given by
writers on the science OF language.
In those times Il was a title OF honor
and regard, but in the lapse of timo
has become so promiscuousiy applied
TO all Glasses and grades of people
that It has long ceased to be dis
tlngulshing title expressing lordship,
and other names have been and are at
present used TO express the slnle rank.
II was ut first master. then modified
TO mister, which was n title expressing
worth. honor and problty. In the six
tccnth and seventeenth centuries, the
appellatiOn or affiN OF Mr.. TO a sun
name expressed dignity ana rank, dis
tinguishing those to whose name II
was applied, from the common classes
II was In those days very carefully
used and but few names, and those
Of the distinguished classes, We're hon
ored with this title. i has been stat
ed by writer's OF the time Of the early
emigration to New England that In
list Of one hundred frccmcn, not more
tlun four on five persons bore tho dp-
pcllatiou OF MI,
"Knighthood was a very ancient title,
Certain qualities or mind ana lnanner,
certain courses Of action which dis
tinguishcd persons for bravery and
honorable conduct and brought theni
into favorable notice with their sover-
at ln
lation Of knight. and yuoh individuals
became a favored class"
This explanatory introduction In the
Glovcr book as followed by n long list
uf the men OF the Glover family, who
We're knights, -hciiffs hcralds, and
gentlemen. They We're clergymen,
patrons, and church Nar1eps And one
splendid Glover Robert was martyrod
I'm li5J, az noted In the famous FoX's
Martyrs.
The Herald Robert was famous IN
these early days, while Sir William
Glover was n London alderman IN 1900.
There Nerr quite a number 81 iHml-
lies of English Gloyer@ and some
spelled the name Gl0uer. but u orig
mated as Guiufrc, M W0rWickshlrp ana
Kent. From these TWO counties, tho
families spread into Bugkinghaiushlre
and Berkshlre Tho father of The
American clnigrant Thomas Glover
lived IN I,Aiuhlll parish, iu Lancaster.
He married MargerVy Doaue and they
hnd eleven children. Three sons uf
this Thomas. came 90 New England
ana settled in Alu saachuseus. John
Glover "a the one whose line Is car
Rcd down But the whole family IL
given In considerable fulness IN this
excellent work
One of tho sisters Who has labored
long and diligently. IN the salt Lake
temnlo whose llfe has hopn proFerVod