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kill in 1850 and Corkii in 1852. Cork hill Is now tho predominant form in the island.
 The wide geographical extent of the surname derived from the ancient Thorketill is testimony to the activ- ity of the Nprsemen in the western waters in the tenth and twelfth centu- ries
 The patronymic prefix Mac, meaning boy, son" has been amply explained under Mcdonald in No. II of this se- ries. and the old name Thorketiil is fully treated under Thirtle above. EasteriInE, Sterling. In the year l25s, Henry III of Eng | land, at the request of his brother Richard. Earl> of Cornwall. King of Alaine.~ granted that the SterlinKs, or merchants of Almaine, should be | maintained and upholden through the whole realm. by all such freedoms, and free usages or liberties. as by the king and his noble progenitors' time they had and enjoyed" So runs the aii- cient charter preserved in the Liber Albus.
 This term Esterling. Dutch ooster- ling, was generally applied to the na- l tives on the Baltic coast of East Ger many and, especially to the merchants of the Ranse Towns. The latter en- joyed special trading and banking priv ileges and appear to have coined money known by their name sterling. | The surname Easterling and also Sterling when English. but not the Scotch Stirling. indicates in most in- stances, the -Easterling, the East Ger man merchant or Hanse Merchant who had settled in England for the pur- poses of trade. Fabyan in 1463-s men, tions the marchauntes Esterlynges," !" and chronicle of 1884 mentions Wolfe. an Esterlinge." ]"
 The name Is derived from the Anglo Saxon easter. Old Saxon oster, Middle Dutch poster, Middle English ester and easter, incoming eastern, eaterIy," and the Anglo-Saxon suffix ing, old Saxon Old Frisian. Old High German ling Old Morse lingr. Gothic liggs, which is either indicative of origin as in earthling.<or diminuitive as in darl- ing. In EUsterling 1t is obviously the former, SC the term may be rendered the one from the east" or "the son of the east"
 The old word ester maya be Illus. trated by such passage as this from John of Trevisa (1387): "Boemya is the firste prouince of that ester Germania .
 The word is cognate with the Greek eos, AEolfc auos, Latin aurora, foI ausosa. sanskrit ushas, Lithuaniar auszra, all meaning dawn, morning 2
 The surname may In some cases have a somewhat different origin.
 The Hundred Rolls of 1272 have ds Estherlinge, for Norfolk and de East erling is found there in 1900. Thi, has every appearance of a local name but no such place has been recognized It may be interpreted as a transfer. ence of the name applied to the East erling to the country from which h, came. In this case the origin woult be as above.
 On the other hand 1t may be an olt local in Norfolk. In this case tn, name most likely signifies ''the easterl heath" and the surname "the one wht has his residence at or near the east ern heath.''
 The prototheme would be the sam, as above. but the deuterotheme is nov the Middle English lynge. "a heath, from old Morse iyng "a ling. heather Swedish flung, of the same meaning.
 Rogers, RutgeF.
 Rogers Is the son of Roger Tn, final "s" is genitival. Rogers Rod gers and Rogerson are equivalents. Tn, I'd" in Rodgers is original and hal been lost in Rogers.
 In the Old High German of the sev ienth century the name appears al Hrodgar and Hruodgar. The next fiv, centuries show some seventy-five diff ferent ways of spelling the name These include such forms aa Hrod gaer, Hrodger. Hrotgar, GrodegaI Rhodegar, Ruadachar Ruaggar, Ruad kar. Ruotger, Roitcher, Rudtger. Rud acar, Chroadar. Rotflgar. Rotgar, Rud ger, Rutger, Rodger, etc.
 The name early became favorite In, the NibelungeuIied the Markgra Rudiger is the special friend of Diet