The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-11


 This may possiblyS be cogDate with the Latin trabea, "a mantle worn by consuls. ausurs, knights," and the Sanskrit, tarpya. "a garment woven from certain plant material. {" Drappes would seem In the first in- stance to have received his name from
 some characteristic garment that he wore. The termination acus, acum, is found
 all over the Old Celtic territory. II I Is adjectival in nature and signifies | belonging or pertaining to-" is | added especially to personal names to | indicate the residence, estate, etc. oi ! the person named. There are hundreas | of such place names. With acus, the
 masculine noun fundus was understood | with acum, the neuter praediuIn. botn these nouns Nsignify estate. property
 .etc." Such is the usual origin oi | place names in France now ending in "" or an accented 'e."
 | Archer.
 l Archer is an occupative surname l signifying that those who first pors l the name were archers or bowmen, es. l pecially the professional bowmen whe | played so prominent a part in early I The progenitor of the extinct ba' ronial family is said to have been Full bert LArcher. who ''came over witi | the Conqueror,s Le Archer IS tns l regular form of the surname on tnt early records.
 The main seats of the family ere | now in Cumberland and Westmore, l land in the north, In Nottingham and l Derby in the midlands. in Stafford and Gloucester Int the west. Devon in the | southwest and Essex in The, east. n lis rare elsewhere. Derby has the Largest proportion~of the counties men, tioned and Devon the least.
 The name IS derived from the com
 mon noun of the same form and tnis IS l the old French archier. archer, and
 this, in turn. from the Latin arcarfus "a bowman from Latin arcus, "a bow" Old Latin argues. This Is cog. I nate with the Gothic archwanza, Oio Morse, or, Anglo-Saxon earh, all mean. ing arrow" which word Is the Eng
 fish cognate.
 | The Russian rakita, Czech rokyta Serbian rokita, from an original orkyta au meaning .'osier," and the Sanskrfi
 arkas "calotropis gigantea." are also
 probably cognates.
 Algoe.
 The surname Algoe Is of local origin l indicating one who had his residence i at or near the place so-called. The l place has not been identified. but is ] probably to be found on the rocky I cOdSL OL Aiciats0 VT VI w Vco~SAsA AcO~7 1 land. y
 l The prototheme of the name Is the | old Gaelic and Old Irish al, all or all "a rock. cliff. precipice." This Is a frequent element In place-namest th all | parts of Ireland and many parts oi kscotland, under a variety of modern I forms. Allagower near Dublin is All a'-gabhair, "the cliff of the goat" Ail- llatouk is Aill-a'-tseabhaics "the clifl of the hawk" Alieen in Galway and | Tipperary Is a diminutive "the little cliff" The South Irish are rather l lavish with an initial 'F." frequently l adding 1t to words that should not take
 it.. So Foilycleara in Limerick. is 1 "O'Clery's Cliff" and Foilnaman in 1 Tipperary is Faillna- ban, the clifl | of the women" Alba in Scotland is a compound of this al and abh,. water 1 s'the water beneath the heights" The l poetic Celt in his love of KenningaI terms the echo macalla, the son ot l the cliff"
 This al or all has lost an initial "p'