The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-23

" H*z zMa3i1 ssiAeNNH&t
 elm in hzfne- making, but t is by iso
 rieAns Exhaustive.
 The btOtothene ian Of Lancaster is
 mus derived from the Lune. Latin
 Alatfia Gaeilc amhuinn ieanahani (pfo-
 nounced much like Avon-levan.
 The Gaelic abhuinn or arnhuinn, pro-
 nounced alike. is the word for river
 all over the Celtic tsrrftory. It Is the
 old Irish abann. Irish abhann. and aiss
 syb and cup, old Cymric ahon, welsh
 afon tpron6hnced avon, whence the
 English Avon). Cornish avon and auon. Breton avon, atom and avsn,
 Manx awin; Gallic Ab0na
 Its cornates include the Latin amnts tor ab-nisJ, 'fiver.s Itaiic Apulia twater- -iandl, in South Italy. the Iiiy- fian Apstis 4 river name. the Locfian
 and Ifiyfiab Messapis lthe land De- tween the watersl, the Greek Apia. a
 name of the PeIyponnesus, and Inop0s and Asopos. liver. farnesl Lithuanian ups. ''watef, old PfHBsiaii ape river
 and apus spring. foufltain.s' Lettish
 upe, water Ayestan ais (accusative
 apeml water" whence the Persian
 @ul zap, rose. water" our julep and the Shnskrit apHs. waters" {"
 The Gaelic leamhan. "elm." is tho Irish lsathharng Middis Irish lem 6r
 leanh. cyhatic .ilwyf, sim 7 This is cosnate with the Latin ulnits. elm twhence the German ulne has been borfowedJ, the 0id F7iEh 6efffiafi eiffl- bourn Helni treesy the Ofd N6fss aiffff, Dutch oirn. Danish alfn. English elm. The Old slavoric iitfiu ib A ioah-w0fd ffofn the T6uf6nfc. @
 The deutorotheme Is the Latin cas- trum, Fortified placer castra. camp" This in carly England became the An- glo-Saxon ceasteff which appears in English Id four variant forms. Under the Nofmian French influence 1t was softened into chestAr. as in Dorches- tefl Rochester. Winchester. etc. North
 England has a hardened pronunciation
 more akin to tfe 0rikinAi, hence the easter. as ifi Doneasksf Afuncastef. TadeastAf, Nte A Mercian MSS. of the yespAsian ps4itsr shows tfAt this di&- lect had cestfe for the west Saxon coaster The map shows that in the old AfereiAft Kingdom and ttA bofders the softened form Is new found as in Gioucester. Leicester. Worcester, etc. Nearer the ancient marches of the
 Welsh we find much later and clip
 ped form--eter, as in Exeter, wrox- etef. etc.
 Such place names will ever be to the inhabitants of Britath an etyfu0f- oeical reminder Of the ancient fo- man ificursiofis ana tiie spfead Of Ro-
 man power on the island just as the CA&Efi name for A wa1i of mound of defense
 the wall of | castle ot city. will eSsf
 be an historical 6nger-post pointing out some of the sss*e at which the
 early Britons defended themseIves agAiiist Ssfsisii liivadsfa. Of. CaerIson. Caefhafven. Cafiia1e, etcs
 The more remote origin of this c&A4 trunl is still In dispute.
 ! We may then give as the ultimate
 meaning Of LAheaster. 'Elm Rtvef | Camp
 Lancaster and Lankester are thS | leading variants of the surname. This 1 Is mainly confined to the North 6f | land ana westrnoreland. Lancashife
 has only 30 per cent as many; Lfnceh-
 shire ana Yorkshire less than one-thifd l as many.
 I This ls q surname of local origin indicating that those who first bore t l came from q place of that name. Two places in England now bear tho
 nafae; parishsb in Elneolnsnife, and l Yorkshire. 4 parish and village Id | Norfolk, now called Mautby, wab RfMltebei in Domesday times. l There Is at least presumptive evi- I dAnee that the surname Maltby arose l independently in each of these three |, places as 1t is found as De Malteby | on the Rotuii Hundredornn of 127s in
 both Norfolk and Lincolnshire and as 1 De Maitby on the Poll Tax List Of the | west Rtding 0s YofKskiFe In 1878. The 1 Norfolk Maltsby became 1Eaaltby then | mautby and as q surname deteriorat- l ed further Into Maubie and Mawby. NoftinshamshiFe is now the prfn- | eipai hoifie of the Maltbys in England | ana there are seeondafy esftefs In Ialncelnshire and Derbyshlre. Mawby Is rafs outside of Lincolnsnirs and | N6rf0ik
 TAs nanss Maltby indicates a Dans | ish settlement i'd which the 1nAitster piled hsr ancient trade. It's English