The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-23
Bond, s0za, kasehster, Maltby, wfsk-

MHe.
 Boyd.
 This surname had it's origin in Gel. tic nickname. It is from the Irish buide. Gaelic buidhe, meaning yellow, tow n.y. and arose from the color of the hair of the person 50 called. .
 The principal seat Pi this ,,sl aistlrl- nll, turtes been in Scotland, south of the Forth and the Clyde, where they were Earls of Arran aud Lords of Kiimarn- 5 sST The Latin badias. "ehsstnut 4btowh.e ia a cognate. but the eolprs are not the same. From this Latin word snranr the French afia Pfovencal bal. fba snanish bayo. the Portugese baio and the Italian bajo From the Lating through the Old French. come our bay. a color bayard. A bay horse, and baize, so called from it's Ofigiflal reddish brown color. The Dutch baai, German boi. Danish bal and Swedish boi are loan words from the same source.
 The Bodiocasses, a Gaelic people mentioned by Pliny, Ptolefny, Strabo and various later writers; seem to have neen q tribe of Boyds, as their name is interprsted the yellow haired.
 ThA aYellow siieadsg have is tact won < st,f lame and q fame for themselves m many of the languages of Europe: Io "A Fl ssfsd Irfo Iaffn bec6hiss Ftavus and ! TTslv,,s Rome had both Flayian and a FuIviafi gems. The early high ,lt- Te- ~,,fk Sf tlls latter was sadly tafnisiied hv the career of the wicked fulvis, wiIe If Antony. The former gave Ilss s'sa so \ two famous dynasties. an carrier sg Lqune- as ra,,,,t., rn nt Elsvil of tho gAtlns Reate, ana a later founded by Ccnstantius, fatne1 ae f.onstan ntfne the Great.
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 ,-hsa surname is of local origin ana afSnifies "the man from Lancaseefs lne county town of Lancashire. X. ss.
 Ti3ss citx iias sh the slope of an ens .nsrra rtsfne from the left bank Of the 1,,ae and crowned by an ancient cas- "A T6is historic foftress was built by pns.ar 6A pofcfou. to whom the con n,ssrsr nafl granted most of the lana ivinr between the Ribbie and the Met- aev. The Eaxons had earlier for1ineo me. the site and centuries pehote lnsll eo.s. ss.s ing the Romans had placed here one ae thssr f6rtified camps. Tfaces Qt .a,,sT h,iiil by Hadrian are SUI visible. sr1S1 InraAsoil well illustrates the mas tArlv skfli ok the Romans h the se- ,eetfAn 6f q site, for It comiuh nds m views of the river and of ths salfeahs- ins country on all sides. ..., a
 Ptolemy. fiie geographer, telis us thSf Ahe Ronars called this place Aia- ma, Hence the Saxons called the rlxeI l.s. T.lsYe. and the place Lunceaster' eho kheeter on the Lune. .aaa. 4x !.
 The Latin alaufa is derived from ll tns ns+1tsf oeitlc hanac Of the stream am hs,inn Isafhhsr, .&hb river Of elstis!' The An, is not the English elm. ftTlnus campestris,. as # IS not IF IF Sikenous, but 1t is the snlalief seetsh sssh x wych -eiin (Ulmus montansl, Wnion l,o ffsouently appears in Celtic nolnsnca4- scotland. for example we have foch L,ofnofd, Ptoleny's Beananonias ~ 5 fsens oE the f4ake of elr1s. snd lts E,sflat +hh YAvef or aelIn river" In F1fe Srx the Lomond Hills and the town f,syen. It appears again In Dun oaz- a,. 4oA as Lennox, deamnan -acn aui.' Eeirn-fIeid'') in Galloway in BariueI, ,;.l frSrr-icamh -chuil1, "eln- -woednAi s,h ,n fine same shire in Lowran ana fnwrine (leamhraid- -hean. elm -woodl :. fFatand has q river Laune at Killarney'
 1ovxn tsIehlevan telnn-glenJ In Fer f,anaeh Ballylevin (elm-town) in TJonegal and Kings County; Lisievane i fe1rn-forty in Cork; Drumleevan tenn [ [ Fi5re1 in Leitrim and its variant T,vnn,aiivaun in Kerry. England has A rsver Iaven in Cumberland, ana tsS Iaam in warwick with Leaming E. {AS on ifs banks and LeyenhuH not soA sway. Our list is sufficient for iiiusEration of the prominsnce oE tne