| Show O P PLACE NAMES S j I Ii I GENE Y I L CONTINUED I i i cx c I Moving Mo down the alphabetical stream which is both convenient and logical In this search we arc are making taking as BS to the surnames that have grown rown up out of ot places where tl the tho o old M Saxon Saxon Normans Normans lived d 1 we came camo to old Norse word Holm which meant a a. flat Island Inland Duels were ero called because th they ther were fought on lone lonely 1 and Isolated islands blands There are Flat Fiat Holm Hohn and Steep Holm Holni wow now IJO In the British channel Holmes remains as a II common surname 11 In En England nd h and In America Holt Dolt 1 is III the same Iame as aM tho the Gorman German HoUr end and means a B wood or copse There is In EsseX Holt Bur eur- hc as ns a IL surname and Is 19 frequent In InY Y Yorkshire It Is IR corrupted Into shot shot hot occasionally as In Aldershot and Spar- Spar shot ahot Hope is Old Norse and was IP spelled by them Hop It m means ans an nn opening a a. small maU bay ba also It was wae n ft Rap gap ap in the i hills hUls or in a a. fore forest t. t In Yarrow England Eng Eng- EnGland England land almost every o house In is sheltered in a recess or hollow of tho hills and the surnames s are T frequently compounded compounded com com- pounded with hono hogo In consequence For or Instance we have Dry Dry- hope more tc more than tW twenty nt of or these theBe derl In upper l Durham Durham Durham Dur Dur- ham county En England land there Is 19 another cluster of or names growIng out of or this word such as ao Stanhope Stanhop Burnhope pe Wellhope Swine Swine- hope the m meaning of all nIl of which Is most transparent Thero Thera are aro also Glossup and ant found in Derbyshire Worksop In Nottinghamshire Not Not- and w wo j e ma may t al also o sa say that Hopton Is derived from this same source Hartopp Is another surname as is also Hope Itself So also comes come Blenkinsop and The Tho namo H is Halso also corrupted Into shin hiu Is t the tho o over nettle opening Inthe in inthe inthe I the woods House I is both haUl Old Norman and An- An Saxon Klo-Saxon in Its derivation It Is sometimes contracted Into us In Its Us surname form as Aldus AlIu th the old ohl hou house c Mai Malthus thus tho and Loftus tho the house with n a loft The quaint old of tavern sS signs still found in II rn England nd of ot Scar Bear and Bachus Is a n corruption Of or Beer ant and Bakehouse We Yo have also I the surnames Woodhouse c and growing STowing out of or this place name Huish Hulsh in Saxon Anglo-Saxon is III spelled hi hi- hi wise or a n hide Illde of ot land lind which was the measurement used in those tho p. p early earh days The Domes 1 Book speaks always of oC hides of or land Hurst Is I. An Saxon Anglo for wood and England and especially In Su Sussex c They have which I Is a badgers badger's wood Hazelhurst which is 15 a haxel- haxel tree wood Dewhurst a wood i of deer doer or filled with leer deor hurt Is a awood awood l lwood wood of or linden trees and all nil are used is as surnames ph are also place names while Hurst II exists alone as 5 a I surname Inch or Ince the Ince tho Celtic was YaM moans means an Island There Thero exist toda today in Cornwall the tho mo of oC Ince l I Is not unknown n as a surname In log Ing is old Norman for tor a a. meadow ant and was spoiled polled by 11 them eng and means n a meadow bj by a river rl It IB is fIr very very- difficult difficult cult cull to say ar whether this ending refers to a personal persona name when used in surnames sur- sur names namoR or whether It refers reters to a field tIld But in the case for tor instance of oC such names as r and d there thero is 15 mall sall doubt but thAt these RC w were ro tuns on the lugs ings of or the riv- riv ora or Erm and Dart Keld eld or as ns the tho Old Saxon had It I Celd CeM was as a source of or water watt or a as aH wo WI term it here a spring Is tho the then I t n nIe 6 a of or a a. place In ht Yorkshire which Isreall Is la really the HOly Spring Bapchild near noar occurs in tho the Anglo- Anglo Saxon as tho tiro source of or a n. abeck abeck beck or spring In Yorkshire I Is the village Illa b by the source or spring of tho water this has hilA been corrupted Into The Saxon Anglo Is cognate cognate cog cog- nate with the tho German and Weldale in Yorkshire appears in the Book as I Knapp is the UIA modern form of or tho the old An Saxon Anglo lo axon which means a no I hilltop hence tho the surnames Knapman Knopp ant and Knapton Knoll was as spelled in the then Anglo Anglo- n lo- lo Saxon and was a n. small round roundhill roundhill roundhill hill hence hencen wn n have ha the surnames Knowles Knowler Knollys Knollys Knol- Knol lys Ir and Knowlton Knollys Knolly's might aso come from Oliver Lado Lade was old Norse for a barn but butIn In Ut Saxon Anglo It meant a n. path hence hencer we r Ladbrook Lade Lathe I Ial Lane Is a familiar ward wl for a long secluded path between farms or 01 for for- ests NIts On the Hundred foils are arc numerous nu- nu entries fI such a as th these se Cecilia In the Lane no T r-mma r mma a a. 1 lu i 11 Lane John do de la Ia Lane which hl h 1 Is IR French h for tor In in inthe tho the Jane anew and of of the lan lane Then there were alto Lane and Thomas super Lane L. so 50 that although a Norman orman family of ot Lane came over O with the conqueror wo we cannot say that all the English Lan Lanes s are art descended descend descend- ed from this one Norman orman L L' L Ane Ane Theauthor Tho The author of ot a favorite te En English lIsh hymn There Theres a n. Friend 1 for Little Children Above o the Bright Blue Sky was a n. aMr Mr 11 L was a R. grassy sward In a forest for for- est It Is from the old ohI Norse Lund that signifies sh a sacred grove rove The surname of Lund which Is IJ ver very ry fa famous famous ta- ta locally and revered re In Its pos pos- PreAl President Anthon II n. Lund of ot tho the Mormon church lUll line this old sig sig- It i is not unknown In En English English Eng Eng- lish life lite of oC to today a but exl exists t In a mod mod- modified form Chaucer says of or Th Theseus cus To the Laun Launde c he Tl eth ful fill right There was W the haite harto wont to have ha hl his flight light The surnames that remain to us Ul are arc JJ Lan Lands s and Lowndes there arc are al also o a a. few C Fn English h Lunds Lunts Law was a In oM oll Saxon Anglo and meant a hill In the north of En England Harlow Barlow In Essex x Oswald la In Cottes- Cottes low law in Bucks and Bucklaw in Che- Che I shiro arc are all both place names and have hae become sui names s. s But Low Is also employed in I England to m mean an a a. grave s mound Lect teet Ie Legit h. h Leigh I Ley Lea were cre all forms of oC th the Saxon Anglo-Saxon Leah masculine which signified a a. fallow pasture but Leah llah feminine signified a Iou tough rough h wooded pasturage e. e Local names being beins usuallY In Jn tho the dative Lea Ja Leafor foi for Leah 01 M. M Is s nominally tho the source for tor the tho Le Ley This word enters Inters Into inlo endless sJ compositions ns as as Stanley Calverley Wesley I h. h Berkley I eyton ton etc etc It I is found toun 1 ns as u a n surname In all Its Us own forms There Is Js an nn old verse rc which refers to the extension of ot the name As 5 man many Lees Ives As there be bc fleas Jo Low Lon Is h tho the same meaning as ns La Law and anft has hUt been explained Lynch Inch or as ns the tho old Saxon Anglo n lo spelled It was n a hill a and dt a n boundary also it ma may have hae h had the he same flame origin as ai tho the northern Links This surname Is I well 11 known in Utah borne as nR It Is 19 b by Miss Mh Annie Lynch who has been lIeen so 10 prominent in Sn genealogical genealogical gene gene- circles Mere Is Saxon Anglo for tor a sheet of or water We c have t therefore Whittle Whittle- and in Cornwall Cornwall Mereton is a tun b by A a. mere Mere Joe I is however also employed as a boundary bound so BO that Mf Merton ml might ht also mean tho the tun on a boundary Moor Is too familiar toda today to need explanation Tho The form orm of ot spelling and andIs its Is meaning have ha been preserved ed Intact in- in few tC place place- tact as one of or the tho very vory r nl names which have VO done dono so BO As surnames surnames sur sur- names wo have Moore Moora and Moro Mora Muir in tho the Scotch Morton Morley and Paramore Paramore Para Para- more moro means sans an loA on th the tho moor from the old English English Parren to enC en en- C close Mountain Is found as all a surname anti and was probably brou brought ht In b by 1 I followers Also Mount IO Ore which Is 18 from Crom th the Saxon Anglo Ofer and Ora la is the shore shor of oC the sea or the bank of or tho the il river lher r from tho the r German Ger Ger- cr man Ufer Wo 0 have Pershore and as surnames Esher Is H Ass Aee EG ocr which means the ash tre tree bank Wardour ardour which is the thc original Q of tho the title of Lord Arundel in England comes from om eard Ora Tho The same I word werl enters into the formation of or Windsor Over or o. as ae the Saxon Anglo-Saxon hay has it It Ofer has the he same derivation An n old L English poem quoted by br says pays Sho Silo comes out of ot And Ant rived h here at Dovero That stands upon the sees see's overe o cre It 11 rca really ready I denotes the flat lands that lie lIu along the low coasts coast We e have havo both Over Q and Overman O left as surnames sur sur- names Nant Avant was Celtic for a valley alley Pennant Pennant Pen Pen- nant was 35 the head heat of or tho the valley Nan Nan- was the alley allo of or the horse Pen was Celtic for foi the tho head therefore therefore therefore there there- fore was tho the castle on the headlands was the name of ot the village at tho the head hoad of tho the combe cumbe was tho the white head hent Pitt was a sawpit coal pit or pitfall in Suffolk moans a wolfpit 1 In D Don Devon on which Is tho the ancient vat seat of ot the derives Its 13 I names from the falling into into pit i I. I o. o a n pitfall for tor wild beasts Mr r. Lower in his hili Book on Surnames tells the following fol fol- lowing loving stor story of a foundling christened Moses and surnames Pitt because h hI he s was vas found fount In a marl Nobody likes you ou said laid this crabbed piece of ot humanity to a a. neighbor with whom he was at strife Nor you ou replied the other not even your mother who abandoned al you your ou Platt was a piece of or lying low ground round Even E now we speak of a garden garden gar gar- d den n plot plot actually actually a plat This word also ll o remains in surnames usually spelled as Platt PI or Platte I Pol was ns spelled In Saxon Anglo as as' Pol an and 1 In Celtic as and meant a III pool Aa says 8 an nn old English verse Pol lol Tro and Pen are arc the names of ot I Corn There are aro both and Pol- Pol PolI I I due surnames the last o of which meant i black block pool Rayne was a Raino and survive sur i 1 I. e e. one living at the bounds Ridges or or Riga which h is 18 An Anglo Anglo- lo- lo Saxon is generally applied to an old I I I I i Roman road Ridgeway is one of the man many surname forms torms growing ro ln out of or I this place-name place then there theio I Is itself that itself that being tho familiar name of or the builder of ot our Tabernacle r organ an I Aldridge e Aldrich w which Is tho name o of At corrupted or At nl and nd these have o given gl rl rise o to 1 or Triggs Beveridge Be the name namo of or In- In Indiana's In Indiana's dianas diana's famous young joung politician I is re- re r e- e cIl from this place Th Tin Then 11 there are arc also and Ash Ash- ridge Ilos Hos in the Celtic was as spelled nhon nho ana and n meant a 11 heath we 0 have the old Scotch name Ross Rosa then thon we va have hav Ros- Ros kelly known well in Cache l r rand and our own locally famous surname of JC Penrose has come cane up out of DC this pl c place place- name Penrose Is compounded therefore therefore therefore there there- fore from a heath and the head or of head of oC the tho health ant and proves to tous us that our well known poet statesman man writer writ writ- ci er an and Mormon olmon got t. his ills name pure purl old Celtic Celtic- stock on both counts of oC his place Is also from this place name of oC no RoS Royd Loyd no 1 Is old Nor Norse oro c for or a clearing In inthe tho the wood the German is Iode o as ns or Rente Reute This This' I a la much use used 1 In Irl Yorkshire En England land as ns Kb- Kb brod cIrode Cor or oak oak- clearing Ormrod the tile clearing made mado In there thero Is tho tile famous sur sur- name of ot Rhodes from this place II Rye Ryo was spelled In Anglo Saxon An lo and nd meant a ridge or Ot bank nr or sand and pebble pebbles Rye RP also meant JUth RUh which was a l stream nn and Leatherwood d Is AngloS Anglo- Anglo S Saxon xon mean the stream from its source Rupell was a a a coppice Phillip atte Ruple In was named lathe In la tho the time of Edward I. I Scale Sel S l. l Scle Sele old Norse Sel Set Anglo Saxon A Saxon oon Seal was eal-was was a residence or ora ora a n hall all It is spelled variously In Fn England England Eng Eng- land is as s Seal In Worcestershire Zeal Z nl In 1 Devon on In Surrey and wh comes Selworthy other surnames are 1 Sel Selby by Scale and perhaps S Seely l al also o Ingersol our famous Amer American scan ican infidel and Ins Ingar Is the tb Norse c Ingvar ar a Norse settler in inland Ent all land who called the Seal or h hall after him himself clr Hence Ingersoll I To be he Continued |
