NORMAN

A native of Normandy, a northman. The inhabitants of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway were anciently so called.

HOGGEL

From the Norman, Hugel, a hill.

LENNOX

(Gaelic.) Local. From the County of Lennox; Scotland. The original name was Leven-ach, the field on the Leven, from the river Leven, which flows through the county, called in Latin Levinia. The river was so called from Llyfn, in the Welsh, which signifies a smooth, placid stream. Leven-achs, for a while spelt and written Levenax, and finally Lennox. Arkil, a Saxon, a baron of Northumbria, who took refuge from the vengeance of the Norman William under the protection of Malcom Canmore, appears to have been the founder of the Lennox fannly.

KNEVETT

A corruption of the Norman name Duvenet.

WILLOUGHBY

Local. From the lordship of Willoughby, in Lincolnshire, England, given to a Norman knight by William the Conqueror. The town or habitation by the willows.

PHIPPEN

A corruption of Fitz Penn, from the Norman, Fitz, a son, and Penn. The son of Penn.

STODDARD

Concerning the origin of this name there is a tradition, that the first of the family came over with William the Conqueror, as standard-bearer to Viscompte De Pulesdon, a noble Norman, and that the name is derived from the office of a standard-bearer, and was anciently written De La Standard, corrupted to Stodard or Stodart.

PARDIE

A name given to one who was in the habit of swearing Par-dieu. Lewer says, it is not a little curious that the French oath, Par Dieu has become naturalized among us, under the various modifications of Pardew, Pardoe, Pardow, and Pardee. So also we have the Norman name Bigot, from the habit of swearing Bi-God

GARNIER

Fr., Garnir, to summons, warn, call out, furnish, supply. Italian, Guarnire; Norman, Garner, to warn, to summon, to fortify.

AMHERST

(Saxon) Local. From ham, a town or village, and hurst or herst, a wood, the town in the wood, the H by custom, being dropped or silent. It may have been derived from Hamo, who was sheriff in the county of Kent, in the time of William the Conqueror; a descendant of his was called Hamo de Herst, and the Norman de, and the aspirate h being dropped Amherst. Amhurst, the connected grove, or conjoined woods; am, in the British, as a prefix, has the sense of Amb, amphi, circum, i.e., about, surrounding, encompassing; hence, the surrounding grove, or Amhurst.

DEVLIN

Local. The Norman spelling of Dublin. In the great charter of King John, Henry, Archbishop of Dublin, is written Henri de Diveline.

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