The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-25

creme, Middle Dutch grone. Dutch
groen. OLD High German Gruont Mid
die High German gruene, German
gruen, Old Morse groenn. all meaning
green. fresh. vigorous. unripe." etc.
and connected with the Old High Ger
man gruoap. Angio-saxon growan,
English grow. hence green is literary
growing things" The noun grass Is
| from the same radical.
schoe nberger, Schombergs
The name Schoenberger, Schonberg-
| SchomberR. ETC.. is Of German origin
and signifies "the man from Schoen-
| berg" The sequel shows. however,
that he that bears the name may be
Swiss, Moravian. Austrian. Czech, Rus
sian, Prussian. Bavarian. Hessian. Sil-
esian or any one OF several other kinds
At least ten places are mentioned in
the early records that may have given
rise to the surname at an early pc
! riod. These are; srhe Hessian Schoen-
berg. near Haselstefn. northeast Of
Fulda. called Sconunberg In the
eighth century; second. Schoenebuerg
In the oberant OF wsiblingen. called
Sconinebirih in SIG. Sconenpirch in
ss4 and sconiunbirih in ninth com
fury document: f3l the Swiss Schoen-
enberg on the Thur. called Sconinperac
In S38; ca the Swiss Schauberg, south
| east OF Winterthur. which was Scunf-
perc in $50; CD Schuenberg In the
Swiss canton of st. Gall. called Scuni-
perch in ssS; (e) the Bavarian Schoen-
berg on the Ammer. called sconipperc
In the ninth century; Cd another Ba-
varian Schoenberg near the ALI. found
as Sconinperch in the tenth century;
| (S) Schoenberg, near Kehlen In Lux
,emburg. called Sconeberch In 1923; fs)
Schoenberg In Hesse Nassau, near
ziergenhain, which was Sconebefg in
1890: s(10) Schoenberg, near Lohps-
burg. In the Innkreisse. mentioned gin
1910 and 1890.
In addition to the foregoing men
toned on the early records prior to
100. various other places appear on
later maps some or all of which may
be old enough to be possible sources
of the surname in some instances. Thus
we find Schoenberg in the Rhenish
Pa1atinate; Scboeneberg. suburb of
Berlin Schoemberg in wuertemberg.
northeast OF Rothwell and another
south. of Liegpitz. in the Resen Ge-
birge on the frontier Of the Prussian
Siiesia.
The other places now called Schoen-
berg are: III In Bohemia. south of
Prague. near the Moldan; (2) in Lower
Austria. north northeast OF Krems ::
E(3) in Moravia. north northwest of Oh
mutt; "a in Courland. Russia, south
of Riga; (5) I'm Prussia, southwest of
Dantzig. near the Redaunen- See: (6) In
German Silesia. southeast OF Gorlitz;
90 in bavaria. west northwest of
Passau ana east OF Deggendorf; (8) In
Saxony, west of Auerbach; Coz in
Mecklenburg-S chwerfn. near Lubbock,
| (10) in Schleswig HoIstein. near KEEL.
| (11) in the Rhineland, half way be.
tween AK and Treves.
We can easily understand the null
tiplicity of places that bear this name
In mountainous districts when we
know that the nearest English equiv
aient for the name is 'Fairmount."
All these places derive their name
from the Old High German Sconun-
perch or Sconunberg. The prototheme
Is the Old High German sconi, Shin
ing, bright, beautiful; Middle High
German schoene,. German schoen, Old
Saxon skoni. Anglo Saxon scyne. Eng
lish sheen, Gothic skauns, form, ap-
pearance." These are cognate with
the Latin cavere, Beware" Greek
koeo, mark, perceive" Sanskrit kavis,
clever, wise" and as noun, seer,
poet"
The ieuterotheme is the Old High
German berg, perch ''mountain" OF
which the history and cognates will
be found under Bryan in No. II of this
series.
whiteside.
| In the Hundred Rolls of 1878 we md
Nicholas Blankoste and Isoldus Rlan-
/ coste resident in Bedfordshire and
Ricardus Blavnic Coste in Shropshire
| We find this same name in it's English
translation In CambridReshire. IN an
entry. relative 70 the wife OF Richard
Whitsides IN the Yorkshire Poll Tax
Eists of 13T9 we ind the name as white
syde. z 81 sSeg.s b. ~
In nosone Of these Instances is there
any distinctive sign to Indicate wheth-
err the name Is of local origin or
nickname due to some physical Pc
culiarity.
In the former case it would indi-
cate residence on the white or chalky
side OF some stream. forest, etc, or
by the chalk cliffs on the coast. In
the latter instance. the name would
probably be due to some large white
spot on the side OF the body, as
birth-mark or result of some injury,
or to large white splotch on one side
in the hair.
The name evidently means Just what
II says, but the data is lacking to de-
eide between the two possible inter-
pretations. Such names at Whitehead,
whitley. whitridge, Akenside. etc
could be cited as parallels for the geo.
graphical origin. and such as White
breast, Whitehead. whitehand, Whit
lock, Whitefoot etc, in support of the
nickname as the origin.
| Copyright. 1909. by Samuel Grant
oliphant)