Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-11


1t is necessary for the student in
genealogy to pursue his inquiries far
and wide If he would learn the origin
OF the surnames which are now so
liked in civilized life. From every
source these names have been de-
rived, and perhaps no more fruitful
source of these surname beginnings
can be found than in the study Of
the lick" and descriptive names
which form the basis of so many of
the surnames in very civilized ma
ton, says the Salt Lake Herald Re
publican. Among the early English
surname beginnings. we find Rag
mar in, the year 794. at which time
he died. He had acquired the descrip-
tive epithet of "Shaggy-brogues !"
from his having fashioned for
himself a pair of CATERS of coarse
Wadmal, sopped in pitch and hard
ened. He died inaor about the year
l94. He had sons with nicknames--
Bjorn. Ironside, Sigurd Worm-i- tn
eye, War the Boneless and White
sark, all known as. Lodbrog's sons
But some seventy to eighty years
later, say the English and Norman
chronicles, Lodbrog's sons were har-
rying the coasts. Two of them.
kingvar and Hubba. put Edmund,
king of the East Angeles, to a cruel
death in $40, and Kingvar, or War,
became king of Dublin, and ruled
from 81 to S73. 1t is, of course, i'm
possible that these were the sons
of the original Lodbrog. The conclu-
sion is that the name of Shaggy
brogues' was hereditary.
Early characters show the nick
names were common in England, but
not that they were hereditary. Among
thnGn l10 %
querer. several bore nicknames, as
Humfrid Vis-de-lew (Wolf face,
Rudolf Tortemains Twisted hands,
Roger Dessalvet dominas God
save the-ladies. There was Front
delbeouef (OxbroW), and Peche (The
Man. of-sin). Pinel who obtained a
great barony from William l., posi-
bly, shed his name of Pinel-that
signifies one devoid of means-when
it ceased to apply.
These descriptive names applied to
the individual only and in rare in
stances descended to their sons and
grandsons. One Anglo-S Saxon instance
of HATTIE has, however, been given
brogues among the Scandinavians.
Some also, as that of Lpuvel, became
hereditary among the Norman set
| tiers ir England. Whether all the
| Pencils derive from the Baron Pencil.
or whether the description of NEEDY
men" was applied all around to sew
eral who were impecunious is not
known.
The Peterborough Chronicle says:
Ronald monk, had made his brother
Hugh a monk when he was a boy.
This Hugh had suffered from a
bloody fluX when he was child, and
he was consequently called Hugh
he
good looking"
When Archbishop Henry de Lon
dres took possession of the see of
Dublin he called together the tenants
of the see to show the nature of their
tenures. and after they had produced
their evidences he ordered the char
ters of the villeins TO be burned.
Thereupon he acquired the nickname
of Scorch-vlleins
Among those who made grants 10
Battle Ahbey-which memorial abbey
was built ON the field of Hastings to
commemorate that decisive battle
occur such names as these: Walter
de Bouef, John God-me- fetch, Bar
tholomew lie Swan, Roger lie Bunch.
Naturally, many nicknames are I'M
Ineligible, as one knows nothing of
| the circumstances which led to their
application. They We're given out OF
mere caprice, out of scorn or were
pet names.
In most of the registers in which