The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-05

ern German dlaiectic ioh III " iSy
plain, o. norass.' Old Morse f4d fi1 Il
With the Same me aning as tho An1tos
Saxon. "A s5 9y ass
Flemish, had loo. still prcservsd Il &
Rass oo stc IS %stfl'fG so
open field. sahsk srn.T has ioKss, s re
gbP oass,n re room, region, country. wofl&
arpeara n the Latin lux, and sipesfs(
Welsh lug. Tight; irish locils, ''lishs1 1
sls ola l Sorns Eat sna
fre"; Gallo Leucetlos. surname 81
Mars; Oscan Lucetius. surname 81
s up ,,n Greek lsSkos .Ighs.a"
Clny.-This surname appears in thu
Hundred Rolls as Cley, Clai, del Clay
Guest Of 1897" shows also alto Cleysh
Tax List q 1873 del in Gay ad become
These early forms sufficiently attest,
Z tho local origin Of the surnarns. THO
locally familiar plap OF clay cy g roundss
The namc seemingly arose In varIoua
places as by the time OF the Hundred
east casts u Mas ad y,
quent in Essex, Lincolnshire, hunting
donshire, Canlbridgeshire and Bedford
shire.
hamshire where It has long been s y:
well-knOwn name. 1t Is we'll estab-&
lished also in Derbyshirc and Lincoln
shire, but is not frequent in the rest est
homo. p ilsi5 i12!t .5sat z a 7ss5
Tiio early, forms cited with "atte'.8
and Sin the" arc a sufficient refuta-8
sn O or the a fos Iris sss "
the basis OF the name. The nearest
cognates to this appear In the middle
Dutch clee. old Tristan klai, tristan
ing clay. loam.' Tho Anglo-saxon
clam. English cioam, "potter's clay"
is from the same source.
The cognates farther afeld include
the Latin glus and gluten ,,,. g .,s ~:
glia and CLINE. glue; old slavonio
'glenu, slime" and CLINE. clay Let-s
fish olive. Slime; Lithuanian glitus.
smooth, sticky" and glite. Stick
meaning thus appears to be sticky.
,I,utledse.-This is the historical
and principal Irish and American form
of q great border name. which IS
Other English and Scotch variants are Y
IRutlidge, Ruttlidge, Ruttledge, and the
corrupted forms Rookledge and Ruck
lidge. Ireland has also Rutlege and
Ruttlege. The name has spread to all Il
parts ofbthe earth. Its principal home
In England Is now Cumberland and 1
The exact locality that gave origin
to the name has not been identified.
but twas in the red chalk districtsof
North England. The name signifies
the red pond or pool" and the sur
name indicates one who had his resi-
ldence at or near such a pond.
The prototheme is the Anglo Saxon
read or Morse rauthr, red Its Te,i-s
Old Saxon. Middle Dutch and Middle
Low German rod, Dutch and Low
German rood, Old High German ror.
German roth. Swedish and Danish rod
and Gothic rauths-all meaning "red.''a
Osean rufus. Creek erythros, Old slav-l
onc rudru. Lithuanian raudas, Old
Irisl, ruadh, cymric rhudd, sanskriti
lrudhtras-all meaning red
The deuterotheme Is an early Middle
English variant OF the lake., the Anglo
Saxon lac. Lache Is found IN Cheshire
and and f hoda, meaning small pond
yive on tho Scotch side OF the border
In the sense OF bog. miry place" IA
hlaeke Lashe ,, Is mentioned II char
low parish. In East Cheshire, and the
name is still applied to a large pond
on Lindow Common. Urb-lache and
toned in n Lancashire viii of 1865"
In surnames this lache has become
ledge. Compare Blackledg sCartledge.
iDepledse. etc
The Anglo Saxon lac is borrowed
from the Latin lacns lake" The cog:
nate Anglo-Saxon form gu, lago. WAS
far more frequent. The Old Morse logrs
Lake. water; Irish loeh, Gymric alagsn.
lake" and the Greek lakkos, pond
tank, pitt" IRE the principal cognates.
The radical Idea Is bend. becoming
a hollow depression"
CrnWf0rd.-This surname comes from
tho parish OF Crawford, Lanarkshtre.
Scotland. The parish Is the most sex-f
tenstve and mountainous In the south
OF Scotland. and derives its name from
church OF Crawford stood on the Upper
Clyde, where the great Roman road
passes that river by q ford.
Tradition asserts that the first who
bore the name was one Mack ornock.
who slgnalized himself at an engage
ment by the water Of Cree. in Galloway.
by discovering Of a Foord. which gave
a signal advantage to his party. nenceS
he got the name of Cree-Foord OF Crait-s
r
|etymologlst, and there Is no warrant
for such a derivation OF the name. SssS
John do Crawford was u witness to
a Lesmahagow charter OF about 1866
He was "a stepsonsof BaldwinHde Big
gar Sheriff OF Lnnark and from him
the parish Of Crawford1o hn took u Its
name. II
According to tho genealogists one SIR.
Reginald de Craufurd, who was Sheriff
OF Ayrshire In 1906, swns tho common
II \ Anp&
ily. IA
The family has become characteristics
Tor the reg Ion south Of the Forth and
the Clyde. but is still strongest Num-.
lerically In the southwest OF Scotland
and especially around Greenock. 1t$hasB
also crossed the horde and extended IN
force as far south rs Llncolnsh hire and 7
Though tho family Is Scotch the
name Is likely pure Anglo-SaxOn.gs
meaning Grows ford These birds have
for centuries had a haunt IN the woods
by the ford. Numerous other places
Crawshaw. Crawthornc. ETC., are da-S
rived from the name OF this bird.
The Anglo-Saxon crave, middle Eng
r0,vo