The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-03

Ito shine. to see,r and the deutero theme of the Latin augur. bird seer Hepkins, Hopkinssn.
 Hopkin is a diminutiver with the pat I ronyinic value formed from Hob. hy. l poeoristic form of Robert. 4 | Hobekyn is the form found on thf | Hundred Rolls of i:73 for. Cambridge I shire. The family. now called Hop kfns, Is stiii strong in this County and 1, in the ncigh boring Bedfordshire and Worcestershire. Hobbekyn of Wind sor was in Gloucestershire in i2es. 1927.
 Hobkin was sharpened in time to Hopkin. thence Hopkins. patronymic | formed with the genltival "s" and Hop kinson. another formed by the sunk son, aopkIn and Hopkins are now ! strongest in South Wales, then In the counties already named. Hopkinson
 has it's chief strength in Derbyshire anl Nottinshamshire.
 A statement was made some years ago that at that time a farm at Swal- cline. oxfordshire. had been In the possession of one branch of the family of Hopkins since the thirteenth cen tnry and that nineteen successive pro- prietors had borne the Christian name John. This is a remarkable instance Of length of tenure within the same family.
 Both Hopkins and Hopkinson are good examples of double patronymlcs. For the nleanlng of the name. the son of Hob.~ see under Hobson and Roberts in No. ts of this series. The surname Bryan Is a patronymic from tbe personal name Bryan. hence 1t signifies the son of Bryan, The personal name is Celtic and a faverite of great antiquity, both b Ireland and Brittany. From the lat ter country. where it Is still ire quent name among the peasantry. Brien was carried to England by the Bretons who aided in the Norman con- quest The Domesday records two under tenants of lands who bore the names Brien and Brion respectively. Our next great registry of names, the Hundred Rolls of 127s, records the name in sey- eral counties under the variant forms Brien. Bryan, Bryon. Al Brian. etc. It was fairly popular for few centuries and fingered on In North Yorkshire. | westmoreland and Furness as a per sonal name until the end of the eigh- | feenth century. So the Bryans of England are Bretons, not Irish. The greatest of the Brians of Ireland was the renowned Brian Boroimbe | (Boru), the hundred and seventh fifth monarch of Ireland--assert the ancient | chroniciers-born in s2s at Ceann-
 coradh tKinkoral. the royal seat oi | his ancestors. The regal spiendor and | masnihcence of his reign were eaualied | only by that of Tara's sovereign, Cor mac MacArt, fin the third century. l Brien owed his surname Boroimhe | ''of the Tribute" to the tribute he trn- | posed upon Ulster. He defeated the Danes in twenty-fve battles and was then slain In. i0tf in the great legen- l dary battle of C1ontarf
 The great Irish sept of the o'Briens of Thormond descended from him and from them many of the Brians. Briens | Brines, Brions, Bryans. Bryens. Bryffes | Bryneys. McBrfans, etc. o'Brisns etc. ! of the present day receive their sur 1 names
 The name may have It's origin in the | root of the old Irish brig, "valor strength. worth" and. as an adjective | powerful. strong, mighty" the Gaelic ! welsh bri. "esteem. dignity, honor
 Cornish and Breton bry. regard. re- 1 spect"
 These are abstract and metaphorical derivatives from the radfcal appearing
 In old Irish bri, breg. Cymric. Cornish
 and Breton bre. mountain, hili." bry.
 "high." Old Gaelic braig. Gaelic brse,
 "hilL" Here belong also the Celtic Brigautes t"hill folk''). British tribe. the Irish Brigit. our Bridget, whose name is the same in meaning as the Latin Augusta, the Cymric breenhin, King" Gailic Brigtanf, Arebriglum and other proper names.
 Among the many cognates are the Gothic bairgahei, mountain range Old High German berg, mountain" :"
 old Morse bjarg, rock" Anglo-Saxon
 beorg. beorh. "hill," English barrow,
 Teutonic Burgundiones "Highlanders,' :.
 whence Burgundy, Old Slavonic brezr
 and Russian ibereg bank" tof a river),
 Armenian bardzr. "high." berda.
 height" Ossetic barzond. high" Per-
 sian buland, "high." old Persian Bar
 diva. q royal name of which the Greeks
 made Smerdis. Aventan berezant.
 high" and Sanskrit brihant 'hIgh,
 great" and also personal name.
 Bryan may then be renderede"strong.
 great" .o-s
 (copyright. 1908. by Samuel Grant
 Oliphant)