The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-20

rames Today: Blackburn. Donashey ponohue. Kinkead. Worth. worthinston.
 Blackburn.
 This local surname is derived rom tha'
 of the parish and town in Lancashire. whier in turn derives It's name from a small stream near the town which rom ,,s sns turBid state of its waters was sncienty denominated the Blackburn or yellow burn. ..., ,n,..icn checks and the Blackburn Grays weIe known in every corner of the United king- dom. Here. too. was the nome oi ,sonw
 The variants of the surname are Black burne Biackbourn. Biackborne and Black born. In spite of appearances there is h0
 Tn inc Yorkshire Poll Tax List Of 1878 ths name is found as DcBIakburn. de Blake burn and de Biakeburne ,...,.a to moan the black stream n must pc shown how black in this instance means sAneio-saxon had . word place or biac fwitf, s short .ao which is our black by | its side was another word biae twitn Ions
 a9. incoming pale, pal,lo s,aks snd as hs. bleak and bleach as near kin. This word , iu Middle English meant both shining. wni.e M
 ssse': ot of eeise n sss latter 1t varied from the pale or scky hus ns of the complexion to the pale green sarea os
  or livid to a withered yellow.
 In North England this blake cams ,.,sa,a usual, iy to mean yellow. and In the ,s ptos'hcae. sn. niied to butter and cheese. cumosr, land glossary has ''as blake as marisoia. it" It is in the North that Blackburn is sit; uated and 1t is quite natural that U snouiu mean he yellow burn" .,.,.. These two words blac, so near ahke' were freadentiy confused a,,o oSth sometisne. m an oniy close study of the context mAoe them dIstinguishable and sometimes even 'n1s Tine old spelling blac Is found as iate. a. the fourteenth century poet who descfioeo ChariemaKne as .Blac of here thairl ano rede (red) of face. This plainly Is no' "" This bIac is cognate with the old Saxon biec of Holland. shining. pale oid ,s. norse sssai.s sIs.sI; s,s siss psi. Wsn asn olS xh man bieih, German bieich. pale The radical appears in the Angic.ssxon biicsn, s,svonie oee bl,skati, fo shine Lthuanian | biigsti. Hash up,, Latin nasrare. 10 ovln' Greek phiegein, burn. shine Avestsn 5fA; and bhargas ispIendor. brishtness.' So near can phiioiegy come to proving | that black is white,
 burma, burne or burn. meaning a smal I stream, a brook Burn is still In commor use in this meaning in the North of Eng. | land The Southern variant is bourn ol l bourne. now almost confined to poetic | This is cognate with the old Frisisr | burma Middle Dutch borne, Dutch born | "a spring: Middle Low German borne Ger man (poeticai) born. which are metatheti. | forms of the words appearing as Old Higi German brunno. Gothic brunna, Old NorsI I brunnr. Swedish brunn and Danish brond i The original and still prevailing Teutoni. | sense is spring, fountain, we'll of whtcf | some tracer are to be found in Anglo Saxon. as this word is used to render foni of the Vuigate.
 \ The Blackburns of England are still tt be found most frequently in Lancashire Other northern counties have fewer mum bers of the name and 1t is almost unkuowE | in the midland and southern parts. | The Blackburns of Scotland deriv places called Blackburn in that country There are at least three of these and thei names are usually considered as translation of the Gaelic Douglas. black or dark va ter Blackburn in Diddesgale was Blscha burue early as ii60. Some of fhees ma. I possibly be yellow burma but such evi ! dence as the writer has points rather [ the 'dark-water' interpretation in case 0
 each of the scottish places
 This surname is of local origin and indi cates primarily the one who has his resi- | dence at the worth.
 | De Ia worthe is found in Somerset s | tho time of the Hundred Rolls of i272 | in Oevonshire twenty years later. Tn Kir J by's Quest of 1927 we ind latte worthe'
 for Somerset.