The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-20
Surnanes of The Southinnd
 Their Origin and Meaning

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 1anrmBummlHuHmrnMmmnmuguM1lnE The common noun worth gave ris. a,so 70 the place name Worth. the name of villages In Kent, Sussex and Cheshire. ,n Erom the Chesht.e Village sprang an clent family which owned estatas fin Tith- erington as early as the fourteenth century ana IS stiif well represehted in Crewe. Ihis family has spread also to Lincoln
 The oid and Middle English worth has nov disappeared from the language ex- surnarnes. in which 1t is . not infrequent element e'g-. Ainsworth. Bosworth. Words
 It !. from the Anslo-oaxon worth, worthig. weorthIg "a close. field. DOT ton of land. farm. manor. estate" The sred sss @ pp"ea aai,g sispseisiy S.. tS wsli-wss, Archaic and Provincial Words" defines 1t as "a nook of land. generally a nook iy-
 4 few of our dictionaries that notice this old word associate 1t with the adjectt, es worth and worthy. the Gothic wairths. The ssmantics though apparently easy at first sight. grow n1ore difficult on fur 'hsr ne. eons,dsra',on and when We turn to strong. yea positive and decisive sgai ast enclosed 0n Tss South rS.ssIsa German woerth and North German wuurt indicate "a plot of ground surrounded with wa dykes @ or piIes'T Here Here we M have % the same e association with water as above.
 The Old High German warid. an island IS also . frequent element in piace-nanes and from the eighth to the eleventh cen- turtles occurs weridfel. verde. werida, |. 'i is now % wer,h @ and wosrts s and % ahs iat.er Is Itself piace-name woerth< The Middle High German wort ts saa island peninsuia.' the Germsn werder Is srnaii island In A
 our worth thenNs "a watsred farm etc" and the radical is seen fn the Angio-saxon and UT. 'hne' rain. mist. Idthusnisn jures. Lettish- jura. Old Prnssian turin. the sea- Greek ss oS5on ,,. and Latin nrins highly , spec. meaning appears in the Greek ouria. 'water-bird' and the Latin urinator. a. di- seT 'plunser.' the Ave:ten varo. rain X "A glance at a good map of England will confirm the association of the worth with water.
 worthinston.
 The surname Worthinston comes to us from the township of that name in Lanca- easiy as the reign of Henry TIL and in i3se Hugh de worthington holds part of
 Snsn n,,,a ,n re ss m . snrm on ths Yor. shire Poll Tax List of 1878.
 The Lancashire family has long been nify' but the worthinstons were early transpianted to Cheshire where they are now far more numerous than in tneir orf- ginaI home Tn the counties of Leicester. Rutland and Nottingham they arc about es nunerous as fin Lancashire.
 This place name is compound of
 The protothene is the Ansio-ssxen worthuns. a little farm. manor. homestead. explained above. by the dirninutive suffix cred homsstead.'
 often has petronynic value. is sore l puzzis as to it's origin. In spite of the grave phonet.Ss diiecisiss deemed insgpsrsS,s ss | Old High German and Old Saxon jung. Gothic jugss q. .. jungsl English young. | Preston in No VII of this series
 The surname then indicates the man I from worthington,' and the pisce-nsme ls literally a hedge-enolosed. watered croft | This iB a variant foFm of the more fre- | quent Kincaid. q Scottish surname derived from the place of that name in the parish of CAmpsis. in stiFiineshire. Scotland.
 so Nissst s oas of tssn for si If: in Edinsarsh from the English. in che
 stable yof the said eastIe. and his posterity | enjoyed that ofFlcs for many years. carry thereof to % tais day S There s is sn @ old s SrOSd
 the name of ILincsJd, upon which are the
 above arms. with the castle. with these
 wha viii psrssw. win defend
 My life and honour to the end
 The family is now largely represented in Ireland also. where the name has the var. ksid and Kinkead.
 The name signifies the head of the &Tecs' & Tns pretpthsme Is the Gaelic and nsdy in No " of shs. sS ssssss 'dis TS. sn. dsG. sisntyins a rock or rocky ohs height Ss Sssd Thi: ie cognate with the Irish oeide. a conn yset kind Of hill. smooth and plain at the nartherp spd north-western counties l of Ireland where it appears in consider able number of places now called Ready | DOasshey. Doaohoa.
 Like many Irish names. the origin and
 s sf DG9n:ssss is s..S. ,n S'PSs
 thsre is 6 piaee-name ponagh hence nstur- ally many associate the two in origin ana There are about forty towniands fin Ire land of which the names are Donagh or a compound beginning with this. More than e. As piace-nan,e Donagh is an ansli. | eised form of the Irish Domhnach. pro eSInsse eSnrss psSwIsssh. 90 ,s and sienifyins "a Monaghan takes itsi name from sr oia la church of which the ruins ruins are % "til' 1 to 0Io ha eN9n. hSat Cias1iougn. The Four Mastara mention ie twice and give its full name or the plain of the tive slopsss The proper meaning of Doynhra.h (. however sunday. from the Latin pomin. lea edies). the Lords (dSvl ner.h. to the Triparttte Life all tha 'ch,,rchass that near the name Domhnach uere orI glnaliy founded by St. Patrick and were So Ssts"n. Sste1 oecs9se ne marked out their foun- .. This opens three possible meanings of the surnaMe the man from Dona rb .tS~ one who had his residence by or n.sr .hs church called Dcnagh.' or the one born
 Both Denash and Donaghey. howev.r freely interchange in Ireland with Donohoa Donaghoe. Donoghoe, DonoRhue. etc var lapt toTms of name still found occasionaIIv ns Donocho and representing an earlier Donno-cnu. the Brown ChIeftain,' or more literally. the Brown Dog This iu a tvni In Irish personal names and surnarneS ana the combination is Irish to the core This explanation is 50 thorouehIy in ac- coraanee with the genius of Irish nouaen- clature that we are strongly of ire onirIav, that 1t Is the preferable interpretation of
 The. o'Donoghus was an ancient yr,.h Mac carthys and o.Mahonys Joined asa,nss them In, the twelfth century and eTraiisS them from Cork They afterwards' 'esso ss,a tied In Kerry and held the country alI around Lough Lone and KiIlarny The legends of the latter tell of a yla,onavv horseman of this family.
 Tn this case the prototheme is the oid Irisn and Gaelic. doun. Welsh dvn GaiIie Ronnrs brown The connection with