Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-14
ORIGIN OF suRNAMEs IN. 14TH CENTURY
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 The Esthonfaas of European Rus sia tell us that the Aged One'' as they call the Deity, placed on the fire 6 kettle of water. from the bGhbling ana hisSiRg of which the various na- tionS learned their languages. The Australians think that the giving et names originated from the people hay ing eaten an cid woman, called Wu- ruFai. whe went about at night auench- ing fires with & damp stick. 'fWuru- rf' is supposed to mean the damp night wind, and the languages and names learned from deveuring her are the guttgral ef wind=lfke reproductions of natural sounds made by the material around them.
 To judge from some of the names we hear, we can imagine a vast num- Der ef participants suffered from chFenie state of indigestion The pharse Christian Name" eamc from the custom ef the early christians, who named their children at baptism. In primitive times. we know men and wo- men beasted of only one eegnomen as, witness the Biblical records. Some times a new name was taken upon some important change in life, as Ab- Faham for Abram.
 It was not until the eleventh. CT ev- en fourteenth century that surnsmes became really stationary. The werd alSStA AaS StFGH IlSe Iq much QlSEUS- sien. It was often written Sirname until some time in the last century. There are tive reasons given as te how the word originated; authorities diff fer as to this. Some say from lax or biography. Williamson and Steven son would be naturally Sir or Sire names, equivalent te son of William and of Steven.
 Tn the same way the peasantry of Russia sffix the termination "witz" as Pietrewitz, sen of Peter. The poles employ sky" in the same way. Pad erewsky Adamski; and the like
 Among the Gaxons we find the end ing ing" denotes descent, to this or igin are due such names as Brown ing, Willing, Deer1ng, etc. The pat similar manner and tee in Ireland the "O' sigRiied grandson, as O'Sul- livan.
 Insisted on Surname
 Tn the reign of Henry L a lady eb- 3eeted te marrying a natural son of that monarch, because he had no sur name, wheFeuPen the King gave him the name ef Fitz Rey. Fftz being a eeTFsPten ef I'll, sen of. The Welsh often put the fathers name in the pos sessive ease, as George Williams, or as 1t Is new written Williams To this origin may be traced many names eTidiug in s: Sc We see that in all languages many names originally Christian have become surnames by adding the word sen te the father name. When we consider that neth- ing exists without a name, and that every name Is given to express some characteristic, we can understand how very important is the subject. The Greeks bore a single name given the tenth day after birth. and usually ex- pressing some admirable feature, as SePhren, the wise The Romans much less dinif1ed than the Greeks derived their names from ordinary employ mentsi as Poreius. Swine herd. or from some personal peeuliarity, as Nase, leng nesed.
 Because of the rapid peopling of our globe, we find that surnames became an absolute necessity to distinguish the individual from others bearing the same first name. The first step toward the adoption of first names arose with the growth of ehivalry, through the hestpwal of nick names for bravery in war, for example. Charlemagne in Carolus Magnus. Richard Long zhanks, Occur de-Lion, and the like Many surnRmes of surpassing strange ness appear in the "Domesday Book" SO called because its decision was fin- aL
 Net Used in Chaueer's Time.
 Some comm affirms in his edi- ton of GhaueeT that probably in Chaueer's time surnames were not used. Among the Golfers in the nine teenth century they havea kind of best name. which they put on and take off with their Sunday clothes. For week-day purposes a nickname an swers very well: Hogarth's original name was Hegherd which was first changed Into ogart and then into it's present form. Tn WeStmereland where Hegerth's grandfather owned farm, the first syllable of the name was pro- neuneed like that of the domestic an- tn1ais his ancestors probably herded.
 History tells us that the early dwell