The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-04-04

tives. and his name 10 stiiiSa frequent
one in that land. When the Portu-
guese reached India by sea in the six
teenth century they discovered the
legendary tomb OF the apostolic mis-
sionary, transported his remains to
Goa ana made him their patron saint.
As surname Thomas abounds most
In South Wales whore II takes numer-
ical precedence over even Jones and
Davies. North wales has less than a
third AZ many ~ South Wales. Nom
mouthshire. Cornwall and Shropshire
lead among the English counties.
Thompson rs well distributed over
England but Is most frequent in the
North. in, the; counties of Northumber-
land. Durham. York. Cumberland and
Westn1oreland. In all England It
stands in the twenty-first place in sor-.
der OF frequency among English SUR
names. s;t. a.ts
Thomson. without the .'p."s is dis
ltinctively Scotch and holds the nth
place among their surnames.
Tooms, Tome. ~
The apostolic name. Thomas. came
to us with its Hellenic,form unchanged.
through the Latin. The Anglo-Saxon
both adopted 1.-The form and also made
q native variant tTomus. The usual
hypdcoristic form of the latter was
Tom.
The 20" In the original Greek, Latin
| and Anglo-Saxon Thomas was pro-
| nounced long, so that sound was pre-
served in the new Tomus and its abb
breviate6 Tom. 3s.s
The natural tendency In our lam
guage to shorten a long vowel thus
situated, has given us our Tom. with
its short o. and this has reacted
| upon even the original Thomas and
IA fns al I'd
This change was not erected. how.
ever, without protest. The protest
took the form OF various attempts to
preserve that long .o' sound. The
most common way OF doing this is to
Indicate the long sound by the addi-
| tion of a final "e.' Thus we distin-
| guish between dot and dote, not and
note. rot and rote. etc. Similarly,
Tome was formed to preserve the long
20" Of the original pronunciation of
Tom. This hypocoristic form became
itself surname and served also as
the base for othed patronymics. So
Tones. for instance was made by the
addition of q gentival IS"
Another device to preserve the origi-
al long 90 of Tom was to double the
| letter. Hence the patronymics Toom
and Tooms. both found on early rec
ords. but probably now obsolete in
| these particular forms. From looms,
| however, with the rather common In
trusion OF an alien "b'. after the m"
i we get the surname Toombs. Similar
ly. the order Toms gave Tombs. still
far more frequent both in England
| and America, than Toombs. -. ~.
The surname Tom is characteristic
of Cornwall and Toms of Devonshire.
| Tome and Tones are found mainly in
Buckinghamshire. Gloucestershire and
oxfordshire are the great homes of
the Tombs and Toombs.
Toombs Is thus "the son Of Tom or
Thomas" a name which has been ex-
planned in detail under Thompson
above.
| Shepard, Shepherd.
Shepherd Is the most frequent vari-
ant of this common occupative sur
name. In this form the name is now
distributed over the most OF England
except the eastern counties south of
the Humber. Sheppard is the variant
most frequent after Shepherd. but
found only about one-third as often.
/ This form. Sheppard. is most frequent
| ly found in Somersetshire and Glouces-
| tershire. Sheppard is found mainly in
Cornwall. Shepheard Is characteris-
tic of Norfolk and Shropshire. Shep-
perd IL peculiar to Buckinghamshire,
and Shepard is Gloucestershire va
4 Want. ~
In the Hundred Rolls of 1878. we
find lie Sephurde. lie Sephirde and
schepherde. The Yorkshire Poll Tax
List. of 1879 has Shephirde and Schep-
hirde.
In 1885 there were six farmers of
this name in Shropshire and their
names were spelled in four different
| ways. =
The name is from the common noun,
shepherd. and SO signifies "the sheep
~ ri fu hn "a xn
sceaphyrde. of which the prototh eme
sceap sheep" Is unknown except in
the West Teutonic group of languages.
Here we have the Old High German
scat. German schaf. Old Saxon soap,
Old Tristan skep and schep. Dutch
schaap, English sheep, all of the same
meaning.
The deuterotheme is the Anglo
Saxon hirde, hyrde. "a herd or herds
man" "the keeper OF a herd or flock
of domestic animals" which has been
explained under Hurd In No. XVI of
this series.
Anderson, Andrews.
Anderson and Andrews are equiv
alent patronymics, each signifying the
son of Andrew. The former prevails
in Scotland, where 1t Is so general a
favorite that 1t holds the ninth place
in order of frequency among Scottish
surnames. 1t has crossed the border
| In force and Is now frequent In all
| the northern shires Of England
Andrews and Andrew, as a surname,
are rare in Scotland. The latter has
| its main strength in Cornwall and
| Devonshire the former in Dorsetshire,
| Hampshire and Wiltshire, but is more
| or less at home in all central and
| Southern England.
| Andrew as an apostolic name was
bound to obtain favor In all Chris
tian countries. Some of the relics of
| the sainted Apostle were brought to
Scotland, so the legend affirms, as
early as the fourth century by st.
Rule or Regulus and deposited at the
| monastery on the promontory of
Swine. Consequently st. Andrews be-
came the primatial see of Scotland.
Tradition assigns Scythia. Greece
and Thrace to Andrew as the field OF
his missionary labors and reports that
he suffered martyrdom at Patras, in
Archaic. by crucihxion on a "cruX de-
cussata," that is. one of the shape OF
| an x, which has since been known
| as ST. Andrews Cross. Legend states
that a vision Of this cross appeared
to Oengus or Ungus, king of the Picts
! and promised him victory in the i'm
/ pending battle and thus the white sal
tire became the national ensign. An
Il drew became the patron saint of the
country and later its knightly cham
pion.
Philip, the God of Burgundy, named
him the patron of the Order of the
Golden Fleece and this made Andreas a
popular Flemish and Dutch name. The
Lithuanian Endrells, Bohemian 0ndrej