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name from his residence ''at the beck, | small stream, especially a brook with 2 stony bed and a rugged course. Thus the Promptorium Parvulorum. of about l440. defines bek as "watyr. rendylle. ftvulus. torrens" The word is still in from Lincolnshire to Cumberland. in the region once occupied by the Danes and NorwegiAns.
 Flemish family named Bee are founJ in possession of the manor of Eresby at the time of the Domesday Survey (1ose) Bee in Normandy gave its name to a baronial family which held in Friskney and Scremby in the latter part of the thirteenth century. The bishops of Lincoln and Norwick in the early part of the fourteenth century were two brothers De Beck, or l Eek, or Beke who claimed descent from the F1emings at Eresby. The name Beck is still characteristic of Norfolk and especially of the district about 1 Norwich.
 The surname appears in the early l records as del Eek, de Bech. en le Bee, l atte Eek, atte Beck, etc.
 Of course there is no common origin for all the families that have borne the name. The Norman barons Bee 1 took their name from the Old Morse bekkr. Danish back, Swedish baeck. | The Flemings took the same name from | the Flemish beck or beck, cognate with | the Old Saxon baki and bike, Old and l Middle Dutch beke, Dutch beck, Low German beke and back. The German | Becks arose in Low German territory ] and there High German namesakes are | the Bachs Baches, Baughs. etc, from | the Old High German bah. Middle High German bach. The English Becks when not descended from the Norman or Flemish family. had their origin in | the North of England where the local | beck Is borrowed from the Old Morse l bekkr.
 The word Is frequent element in | TeutonIc place-names except in Ice- | land. In that island the Old Morse | bekkr has almost disappeared. It sur | wives in poetry and proverb, c. g., ''That CT bekkr a milli," (There ia a I beck between), said of two that are out of each others reach. The "kk" | in bekkr represents an original "gn" which appears in the cognate Russian baxno, Polish bagno, swamp" and Sanskrit bhaEnas, broken The last shows that there has been a seInantic development similar to that of Brooks (see No. XVI. of this | series.9
 HOgE. Hoge. Our HogRs are of several breeds. Undoubtedly the most of them bear patronymic surname indicating their descent from Hodge. frequently spelled Hoge and Hogge. in the early records, l a hypocoristic name from Roger. These are then "sons of Roger" The surname appears as Hogge Hogges. Hoggese, Hoge, Hoggeson. Hodgessone. and Hodgeson in Kirbys Quest (1327) and the Yorkshire Poll Tax List (ts7s)
 The HoRgs thus descended from Hodge will find the full explanation of their name under Rogers in No xxIL of this series.
 Another variety of the Hogg family may successfully claim descent from the Angio-Saxon personal name Hoga, OId Morse Hougo German Hoge which are variants of HAEo or Hugh. These may solve their name by turning to Fitz-HuEh in No. XIV. of this series.
 Still others of the Hoggs probably bear a local name indicating their early residence lat the sign of the Hog" See No. I. of this series. for an account of such sign-names. Our early records show an occasional del Hog. atte Hog and these people pro- bably have descendants among the living
 still others must. alas. be plain Hoggs for no other explanation Is
  of the Hundred Rolls of i237 and Kirby's Quest of 1927. than that they bear a nickname given them for real or supposed attributes.
 Of course every individual HoRg iB free to imagine that he belongs to some other than the last. At this late date 1t would be difficult to assign any particular family to any parti- cular category. The individual may take his pick. If 1t be hard for him to prove his claim 1t will be as hard for another to disprove It.
 In the old country the name is new strongest in the lower countries of Scotland and in Northumberland.
 In the case of the last two classes. owing to their name directly or in directly to the animal, the name is ultimately Celtic. The English word is borrowed from the Welsh hwch. Breton houch. hoch. Cornish hoch. hog. cognate with the Old Irish socc Irish suig, Latin sus, Greek hys. Albanian thi, Avestan hu. swine Sanskirt su- karaS. boar, Old High German and Anglo-saxon su Old Morse syr. English SOW. Gothic swein.
 From the same radical come the Greek hyios. Old slavonic synu, Gothic sunus. German sohn, English son, all cognate with the stem of the Sanskrlt sute suyate. 'beget.'
 Flshback, Fishpaw.
 The German surname Fishback had a local origin and consequently signi- fies the one who had his residence at Fishback." The local name signifies stream abounding in fish,
 The map shows several places of this name. Fishbach is the name of four villages in Bavaria. village in Dutch Luxemburg (Vischebach in 960) a vil- lage in Nassau (Vischbach in 901), three villages in Prussia. one in West phaIia (visbeke in s92. Yysbeke in 934. Viscbike in 954. Visbike in 1904. Vuis- biki In 1925, Visbeck in 1099), a vil- lage In Saxony. one in Saxe-Coburg- Gotha (Fiscpah in FPS, Fisgibah in S13. Fisgobah in 890) one in Wuertemberg (Fischpach in 764, Fiscbahe in ITS. Fis- bach tn S16. Fiscbaeh in SID and one in Switzerland.
 There is a Fiscbeck in Prussia. a Fischbek in Sleswig, a Fisibach in