The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-14

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 varaants--Acres, Acker, Akers, Ciai'
 Cleygh, Do6glass, Dusies, Sone
 Gullidge Gullege, Lea, Leah, Lea5'
 Leaye, Lexg, Legge, Legh, Leghe'
 Lei9h, Leighe, Ley, Ltgg, LigSe'
 Routiedxe, Ruttlidge, Ruttledxe,
 RoOkIedge Ruckifdge, Wade'
 Lee, Lea, Leigh.
 Lee Is the most popular varMn. 10th in America and England or sur name that is pure Anglo-Saxon in origin. Its typographical character IS well attested by the forms 1t taxes III the Hundred Rolls of 127S. Here we ma "a la Legh," de la Legh.' "de Legh," de Ia Lee" "de la Lea. ate Lees" "de Leys." and de Leghes.
 English directories show the pres ont variants to be Lea, Leah' Leay' Leave. Legg, Legge, Legh. Leghe' Leigh. Leighe. Ley. Leye. Lisg. L,sne' and various plural forms. Of these. IAkh was the old favorite. and thls Afterwards gained It's "i' to preserve its proper pronunciation. Lsh now the favorite form In Cheshile anu Lancashire. but the spelling PropaDay Is not older than the early part oi the seventeenth century. Lea mas well-defned territory, as 1t Is rareiy found outside of Cheshire, shropshire, warwickshire and their arJaceh' counties.
 Lee is frequent in all parts of Eng land, and seems to possess inoepehu ent centres in North umb eriahu anu Durham in the north, In Nottingham shire in the midlands, in Shropshire on inc welsh border and in Devonsnire in the southwest. From these ie mas spread all over the island and all over America as well. This name indicates that It's origlnal possessor lived "at the lea. an open trect of grounds. either meadow. pas ture or arabic land. Later, the .eii was usually restricted to grass laho only. places called Leigh, and several o.n era called Lee or Lea, 1t Is quite prop able that in some instances tnis sur name Is due to the town or village so called rather than to the lea dlrect.
 The Anelo-Saxan had a masculine 1eah fnenitive leAs or 1eages, dalve lea) and a feminine, leah (genltlVe anu datiye leage). The attempts to oil- ferentiate these in their meanings have not been successful. Tne com mon meaning appears to be trac. of untitled land, a meadow, pasture. The cognate Old High German, loh, is used to translate the Latin cognate' lucus, "a grove." The Middle Hish Cerman, loh, loch, is brush lana a clearing overgrown with small shrups. The modern German dialectic. lon, IS low plain, a morass." Old NoIse nau 10 with the same meaning as the An glo- . Flemish had loo, still preserved in place-names as Waterloo. Beverloo, etc. The Lithuanian cognate Is lankas, meadow or arable land, open heId. Sanskrit has cognate lokas. free space, room, region, country worlo' heaven"
 The radical meaning Is light" as appears fin the Latin lux, and lucere; Welch, Hug. light" Irish, loche, '1ightning;" Armenian. lois, flight and lusin, moon" Old Morse. LoKi, ..god of fire;" Gallic, Leucetios. sur name of Mars; Oscan, Lucetus, eurname of Jupiter; Greek, lenkos' flight, white" and numerous other cognates.
 Clay.
 This surname appears in the Hundred Rolls as Clay" "Clai," "del Clay" de la Cleye," and "in le Clay" Kirby 8 Quest of 1927 shows also "atte Cleygh but at the time of the Yorkshire Pol Tax List of 1879 "del Clay" had become tie established 1 'rin
 These eaiIy forms sufficiently attest the local origin of the surname. The  cally familiar place of clayey ground The name seemingly arose in various places as by the time of the Hundred Rolls 1t was already common in the east of England and especiltiV frequent in Essex, Lincolnshire, Huntingdon shire. Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire. It is now most frequent In Noting hamshire, where 1t has long been 6 well known name. It Is well establish . Ied also in Derbyshire and Lincolnshire, but is not frequent in the rest of the districts that formed its earlier home. The early forms cited with "atte" fat the) and "in the" are d sufficient refu- tation of the attempt to set up Nor man origin for the name.
 The Anglo-Saxon claeg, "clay" is the basis of the name. The nearest cog Tristan Klai. Frisian klay, klacy, Ger The Anglo-Saxon clam. English clo9m "potter's clay" is from the same rad teal.
 The coGnates :arth"- aield i=.'lrde the Latin glus and gluten, glue, Greek .gloios, "oil lees, sticky stuff, " .glia and gline, glue" Old Bulgarian glenu, "clime" and gline, clay" Let tish gliwe, slime" Lithuanian glitus smooth. sticky" and glite. "stickiness, tenacity. fish glue" The radical mean ing thus appears to be sticky. tena- cious," etc.
 Gulledge, GoIledge.
 The surname Gulledge along with it's variants Galledge, Gullege, Gullidge