The Exeter Advocate, 1923-7-5, Page 3Sanames and Their Origin
FERDINAND
Variations — Fernon, Fernando, Ver-
non.
Racial Origin—Spanish.
Source—A given name.
This is a family name which comes
to us for the most part through the
Spanish, but which traces back to the
ancient Gothic or Teutonic speech, to
that race of which so comparatively
little is known to -day despite the fact
that it overran the greater part of
southern Europe and was responsible
largely for the fall of the great Roman
empire.
Little is known of this race, not be-
cause its blood is not predominating
to -day in many countries commonly
classed as "Latin," but simply because
upon completion of its conquest it re-
cognized the value of the superior
civilization and language of the Roman
predecessor, and adopted, them for the
most part at once. Names, however,
were naturally not adopted to the
same extent as, speech.
The Goths bad a. given name, "Fer-
honanths," the meaning of which .was
"adventuring life," or, in other words,
"courage." In the course of time the
Spanish Goths, among whom it seems
to have been most popular, simplified
it into "Fernan,". and -then into "Fer-
nando." Among the more northern
races it became "Ferdinand."
And from these given names have
developed the foregoing family names,
in the natural process by which par-
entage was at first indicated, with the
ultimate broadening of application to
include a specific family.
Vernon for the most"part does not
belong in this group, but in some in-
stances it is but a changed spelling of
Fernon or Fernan. -
MEAD
Variations—Meadows, Dupre.
Racial Origin—English, also French.
Source—A locality.
It is the variation of •Meadows fn. this
group of family names which gives the
clue to the origin.
These names were, of course, origin-
ally descriptive of the localities in
which their first bearers lived, and
were of local nature.
In the days when populations began
to multiply so quickly that there were
not enough given names to go around,
the first result was the multiplication
of given names into variations through
,,the addition of diminutive endings and
the use of nicknames. But even this
was not enough, and in everyday
speech men found it necessary to in-
dicate which John or Thomas or Harry
they were referring to, This they did
by some reference to parentage or to
the place the man lived, or to his trade
or some personal peculiarity.
Thus such names as "Tom atte
Mead" Tom at the Meadow) or "Ger-
aldde Mead"(Gerald of the
Meadow)
came into being. Possibly it would
pass out of existence with the man
bearing it, and hie son be known as
Geoffrey the Red, or by some other
name. But if the family continued to
reside by the meadow long enough,
sooner or later the expression "atte
Mead" would come to designate the
family and not a mere individual,mem-
ber of it, and so would become heredi-
tary and firmly settled in. a few gene-
rations,
The name of Dupre is simply the
French equivalent of the English "of
the meadow."
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