The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-27


 many of the East Anslian families may h.4 Of saxen descsnt gaining surname frem the perish. stilf a John Alp How q wae prehend of Norwich as late ss ,es reign sf Henry a. Nl, so ,,ts,,. snsss sp, P East Anglia.
 sThe espeeIsl seat of the Howeiis is in Monnnouthshire. South Wales comes next. where the proportion of Howell to Howefls is three to two. Howeis ie found also in considerable strength in the border shtres of Hereford and Saiop.
 the word now spelled uehel in Welsh. This is the old Breton uchei and uhei. Breton uhei and huei, in Che dialect of Xannes ihuei. the Gaelic and Irish uasal. Mahx ooasle old Gailie uxello. later clixHlIo- and oxeffo. The meah- ing is high. lofty, conspicuous. noble. These words are formed from more primitive adjeetivs, sch. etc, and the Celtic suffig eIlp. but do not apprecl- ably diner in meaning from the sirn7
 This ucheI. etc. is eoEnate with the Latin augeo, iincrease, make grow Greek auxo, make great, increase Gothic aukan. grow Old High German cGhhon, old Morse auka. Anglo Saxon escian. to Increase, Lthoanisn augu to grow and auksztos. nigh, Avestan acjah power, might eLettish augsts and sukts 'high,s.g Sanskrit ojas strength arEI ukshati, grow
 The personal name may then be de- fined as the high. eonspicuous or noble one. The surname Howell is . pat ronymic without suffix. and Howe.lls oneswith the genitival s,' both mean Ing the. son of Hewell' at
 Randeiph, Kendall.
 The surname Randolph vies with Lee for the honor of being the great his- toric suTname os tho South. considered, not so much with respect to the ernt- nence. of individual members as of the families as whole.
 The stirnams is patronymic from the personal name of the same form. The latter is found on the continent as early as the middle of the eighth cen tury and appears in England in the reign of Edmund l., (S40-94sl The principal variants in Anglo Saxon times were Ranjwolf Randulf,. Ram dolf. Rondwg'tf and also Rannuif and Ranulf.
 The Normans made the name very popular. With them Fitz Randolph. the son of Randolph was the sur nominal form. Such was once the com mon form in American families It Is bstill found in fair numbers, though the Norman Fitx is now more often dis- cardsd or retained as q middle letter F,
 - Rapdle became the favorite nick pams4s EnsISha and the popularity of Randle the Cfusaaer, Earl of Chester. gave an innnnense vogue to the namc. Tn consequence 1t held its own as a baptisinal nAnie ln Cheshire for some centuries. This was the source of many of uur Randoiphs Randafls, Ran tials. Randeits. Randels, Randolls. etc. as wellsas of a score or more of equivs- lent pa atronyrics and derivatives. such as Rankin. Ranson. Hancock, Rand. etc which the protothetne is the Old High German rant German rand. meaning first. the boss of shield then the rim of the shield and finally rim, hor- der Dutch has rand. edge. rim Anglo-Saxop rand. rond shield rim Old Morse roend. shield. rim of shield. The Gothic randa Is restored from the Spanish randa, Portuguese renda, lace on clothes
 Tine deutsFotheme isthe Old High Ger man '.wnn', wolf oRyhich the history end coEnates win. be found under Woolley in sNo.s XVIII. of this series ! Three Interpretations are possible for tSe naans5 literally meaninR ythe shield. wolf" Tt may be one df the rare suFnaminal dvanda oonnpounds. Tn that case 1t means shield and wolf" that is. one who has the properties of both q shield and a wolf, Of a ehieId 1 te protect hiinsen and his and to ward 1 off kthe foerpan. and of a wolf to in- sptre terrOr to De swift and fierce in battle. 3 E F'H
 < As 2 karhsAdharqya compound the natural intsrpretatibn is the shield | wolf. in the sense of one who Is a wolf, ttats iss exhibits wolnsh quail. | ties as ferocIty, etc, In acting as a | shield or nreteetion 10 his own. or | more ,concisely. "a protecting wolf
 As bahuvrihl compound 1t would | mean "ope who has a, shield wolf" | that is shield marked by the efiky | of weif, referring to the custom of | the early Teutons in having the figure | of some typical animal. bird. etc, en- blazoned on their shields.
 The last is the most probable, the | first the ieaat probable, but any one | of the three is possibly the correct in- cMIvert.
 This Is an oecupative characteristic | of Yorkshire. The family Is now best | represented in the Richmond district. | but 1t is still found also in York. The | Calverts of Danby Wiske were an old | North Riding fanailE. From this stock | came Sir George Calvert, first Lord of | Baltimore. and founder of Maryland 1 As early as the reign of Henry IT., | Henry calvehlrd was a bailiff of the | city of York, and Henry Calvert. prob | ably the same man, represented. York | in Parliemenf. Others of the name | were sheriffs of the city in tine time | of JanlesiI. and Charles I.
 The. usual forms of the surname in |