The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-06

Names by request: Baker. Baxter, Coke. Cooke, Dangerfeld. Jasper.
 Variants: Bacar. Backer. Backster. Ragster. Becher. Becker. Bel<ker Cas- pari Caspar, Casperson. Cook, Dain- gerfield. Gaspar. Gaspard. Gaspari. Kaspar. Lasperson.
 Dangeraeld, Daingeraeld.
 Names are not always what they seem to be. In spite of its formidable aspect, Dangerfleld is not fraught with danger. nor has it aught to do with field. Its proper form is D'AngHrviile, local surname indicating that the forbears of the family once had their residence at AnRervile.
 Girault de Saint Gargeau mentions i've places in Normandy that still bear this name: Angervilie, village in the modern department of Czlva- dos; Angerviile-B Baiileul and Anger viile-la- -Martel, villages In Seine-Infe- rieure and Angervile-L'orcher. an an- cient town in the same department; Am gervi;le- --la Champagne. a village and sacient baronY in Eure. There are also two others in the adjacent dis trict of Beauce in the old province of Orleanais, Angerville. a pretty little city in Seine-et-Oise, and Angerville- ia-Riviere. q village in Loiret.
 From some one of these, probably from the fourth or fifth as named above. the family came to England after the Conquest. The name does not appear in, the Domesday, but one Benedict dc Angerville Is found in Norfolk In the time of Henry IT., and the Rotuli Normanniae preserved in the Tower of London record under the date of the year 1500 that William de AnEerviiie had a writ of right against Robert de Angerville. for Am gerville advowson.
 De AngsrviiIe became written DAn- gerville and this coalesced into Dam gerville and then became corrupted into Dangerfield and Daingerfieid, the two existent variants of the surname. The same corruption of the Norman French vile into the English field took place in several other names.
 AngervilIe, as a local name, signifies "the villa, country house and estate, of Angerus or Anger" The name An gerus indicates "the man from An- gers." the capital city of the old Duchy of Anjou.
 The history of the name begins with the mention of the Andes. a Gai- lie people, in Caesars "Gallic War;" The elder Pliny, Tacitus, Ptolemy and numerous later writer's call these peo- pie the Andecavi or. Andegavi. Greg ory of Tours calls their city Andeca- vus, from which name both Antou and fingers have been derived.
 The name Andecavi is interpreted "the confederates,' derived from the intensive prefix and arde and . radi- cal found in the Cymric cav "a bond. |" Their name thus indicates that the Ga1Iic tribe so called was confed- erated people.
 The local sufix vile is from the Latin villa, "a country house or es- tate" akin to vieus. village. group of houses" and cognate with the Greek lv)olkos. "a house." Sanskrit vecas (palatai sibilant "c'') and Avestan va- esma, "a house." Gothis weihs. will 1aKe," OId Saxon and Anglo-Saxon vic, dwelling place." English wich and wick in place-names, as Norwich, Brunswick, old siavonio vasi, village" Old Prussian vaispattin. housewife" !" Lithunian veszatis. "'house-master." Irish fich, Breton gufk. "a village" and Gallic vicus, village, town" ta.sEsa. Baker. SG' "ss,-
 The welI-known occupative surname Baker holds the thirty second place in order Of frequency among the sur names of England.
 The present typographical distribu- tion of the name is remarkable. The Bakers have 6 strong predilection for the southern coast of England. Be.