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Surnames and Their Origin
HOPPER
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Racial Origin—English.
Source—An occupation.
The "hopper" or "hoppers" of
medieval England 'was, nothing more,
or less than a dancer, a professional
dancer, The proof is not hard to find.
It is found,in passages whioh make its
meaning quite clear, "Le Hoppere" ap-
pearing soupled with '1'e Danser" in
accounts of the great fairs which play-
ed such an important part in furnish-
ing amusement to the people of that
age. The terms appear to have been
used interchangeably.
In the English Prayer Book Version
of the Psalmsthere is still to be found
the passage "Why hop ye so, ye high
hills?" and Chaucer, who gives such
a good "close-up" of the life of the or-
dinary people of his day, says• of the
merry 'prentice, one of his characters,
that • at -every bridals would he sing
and hoppe"—that is, dance.
The "dancers" and "hopperes" of
those days, however, were as hard a
working crew as any professional
dancers of to -day doing their two and
tree turns a day on the vaudeville
stage. They did not have booking
agencies to arrange their tours, but
traveled in bands on their own initia-
tive, staging an entertainment, which
consisted .of starting their dances
in whatever public place they happen-
ed to be as often as they believed they
could draw a generous crowd of vil-
lagers,. Often they would get engage-
ments . for an evening's entertainment
at the local castle.
He can distinguish betweee appear- l3o hoo.a Dreams.
twee and
eatlity.irtio:O;1 by, redeetione of 1 0'1 1b'•iV"1zzo,i dreams are very fair,
the moon.: `i~lae 1)i�lJriangof the castles whore
if he blows bubbles for the tufa of i'he sea renals strew the shore,
()z aenvas5 filled, before the wind,
uo
watching them, he waster neitl.or time i The 1ightbuusc fading fax behind,
nor Conceit in chAlt-(l then.. 1!{i sltfiiac',t1i far sea o'er.
is a self -Cheater. It `fools no , ,
one but the man who indulges it,. Ig 1'hQhthnaic rise and fall of deck
norance is an ue araionahle bin when With, e'er. a thought rf gale or wreak,
Beware of both: You .
mig might
beod, Bew a And Math to hold the helm.
rnl ' ho fess fortunate than'Abdul Sti,.rig .,seas, and stranger lands to
]feu '1`eH'iik—you mtgl.t fall into the � fud,
cistern --S. J. Duncan -Clark in "Sue- And May the Fates he ever kind
cess." •
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NO R RIS.
Variations—Norrice, Norreys, Nurse.
Racial Origin—English.
Source — Georgraphicsl ,.and .occupa-
tional.
There is no doubt that in a good
many instances family mines in this
group originated from the occupation
of nurse, or, as it was spelled in the
days when family names were form-
ing„ in the days before the dominating
Norman race and language had be-
come entirely merged into the English
"Neryeo.,,
The nurse was not necessarily a
woman, though most often so. Again,
while women's names and occupations
did sometimes ,give rine to, family
names, they did not, of course, do it
so genially as men's. Both of these
points make it likely that only in a
minority of cases, even where the
modern family name is "Nurse," did
the name come from source.
this
All the evidence points. to "le Nor-
reys" ("the Norse,") or "le Northern,"
as the origin of most of thesefamily
names. Any man coming into any
part of England from a more northern
place would be likely to be called "le
Norreys" or "le Northern„" though
the term also had a distinct racial
meaning as indicating a Norwegian or
Norseman. There was rather lively
communication, too, between the two
rands even in those days, when the
difficulties of transportation are taken
into consideration.
There are many English family
names which are traceable to the
other three points of the compass, too.
In distant lonely realm.
Premature Burial. ,The iceric' mother left to weep
Feans of premature burial have re -Will there get thoughts more near and
suited in the formation of a society to r deep
effect reforms in the laveof death car- ..lean Jr he were ou ,shore.
nothing
lror 'heirts; inay cleave through span
tiflcation. There is, however,'noth
new in these fears: :4'.ss space
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