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found in the Domesday Book (1oSe) as Storri, name of a tenant. probably a Dane, in the time of Edward the Con- lessor.
 Storre and Staury were the York shir forms of the name in 1873. Sto- rey and Story are stiIl familiar names in the same county. Storey is the Is characteristic of the northern shires,
 being strongest in Durham. Northum-
 berland and Yorkshire. Cumberland, Westmoreland. Norfolk, and Lincoln
 shire also have the name. Storr Is rare . outside of Lincolnshire.
 The name Is derived from the Old Morse storr. great. large" the Anglo-
 Saxon, old Tristan. Danish and Swed. ish stor. of the same meaning This became the Middle English stoor. stoore. stor and stour. now ob- solete or provincial As applied to persons this word had two meanings.
 about equally common, In the surname
 period. The first Is the original mean ing great, large, strong, as In the "Gest Hystoriale of the Destruction of Troy. q. 3743) about 1890. "He was store. man of strength.
 stoutest in armes."
 The second was "austere, harsh. vio- lent" as in "The Marchantes Tale" In
 Chaucer (C. T.. 14703.)
 70 stronge lady. stoore, what dos- tow?"
 Durant, Durand. The surname Durant and Durand,
 common both in France and England. is an ancient patronymic, signifying
 "the son of Durandus.
 Readers Of the old Spanish ballads and of the medieval romances will
 recall ct eHee the leyal knight whe fell 1 at Ronoesvalles. His last words were to tell his cousin Montesinos to take out his heart and give 1t to his mis- tress Belerma, whom he had loved and served for seven years. After the eye cle of Fontarbian tales. Durandarte. Montesinos and Belerma live again enshrined in Cervantes' immortal story | of Don Quixote Opt. IT., blk. 2, c. 23. The personal name was long popular in Italy, where it achieved lasting fame in Durante Alighier. Italy's
 greatest poet since Virgil. now ev-
 anywhere known by the hypocoristic
 name. Dante.
 The surname, also. is frequent and
 famosu in Italy, In the varying forms of Durandi, Durando. Durante and
 Duranti. In Spain 1t has acquired fame as Duran. France has a long list of distinguished Durands and a shorter one of Durants
 Probably the first in England was Durand. the monk, In the time or Eau~ mund Others appear in the Domes-
 day Book as holding lands in the pre-. conquestuai time as well as under the
 Conqueror.
 The surname fl Durandi Is found in
 Yorkshire in 1230. fl Durant and Du- rand in. 1273, fl Doraunt de Movely In 1912, Durant, Dorand and Doraunt in
 1879.
 The English now have 8 strong pre-. affection for the spelling Durrant, but America clinRs to the older and cor- rect form with a single "r." The name in England now appears strong est in Sussex. whither 1t perhaps has come from the family found in Kent
 at the time of the Hundred Rolls. It is strong also in Norfolk now as for centuries past, and in Suffolk. Dor" | setshire- and BucixinRhannshire cons plete the list of counties in which. the 1 name has. any noteworthy representa- | ton now.
 The name Durandus signifies "the enduring. the lasting from the Lat 1 in durare, "to endure, to last. The radical appears also in the initial du of dudum, Hong" Gin time). the Greek den (for dven) detha. deron. of the same meaning. Old Bulgarian dave.
 "once, formerly" and davinu "old, Armenian tevem, ito endure. hold out" :" Sanskrit duras Tong" Gnspace.) (Copyright, 1908, by Samuel Grant Oliphant.)