Origin and History of the Name of Anderson: With Biographies of All the Most Noted Persons of that Name; an Account of the Origin of Surnames and Forenames ...; Crescent Family Record

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Amer. Pub., 1901 - Names, Personal - 112 pages
 

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Page 50 - Teutonic origin. The most distant nations in our own more immediate circle of civilization exhibit no difference in this respect. Most of the natives of North America are named after some animal; during their lifetime they receive another title when they have earned it by some deed of daring, which it explains and of which it is the token. The name of a most powerful chief in one of the Marquesas Islands, contains an allusion to the shape of a canoe, in the management of which he excelled.
Page 83 - If a man be baptized by the na'me of Thomas, and after at his confirmation by the bishop he is named John, he may purchase by the name of his confirmation.
Page 96 - English nobility and gentry, but also to ac. eount for sundry acts, both public and private, the motives for which have been misunderstood, or altogether unknown to the biographer or the historian. VARIOUS SORTS OF ARMS. Arms are not only granted to individuals and families, but also to cities, corporate bodies, and learned societies. Arms of Dominion or Sovereignty are properly the arms of the kings or sovereigns of the territories they govern, which are also regarded as the arms of the State. Thus...
Page 21 - Anderson heretofore unappreciated. As builders and merchants they have built cities and illumined the marts of trade ; in the field of science and medicine they have obtained great prominence; in the arena of statesmanship they have produced men of thought and men of action ; while at the bar and in the administration of justice they have shown erudition and wisdom. As...
Page 96 - Arms of Dominion or Sovereignty are properly the arms of the kings or sovereigns of the territories they govern, which are also regarded as the arms of the State. Thus the Lions of England and the Russian Eagle are the arms of the Kings of England and the Emperors of Russia, and cannot be properly altered bv a change of dynasty.
Page 83 - Gawdie, late Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, whose name of baptism was Thomas, and his name of confirmation Francis, and that name of Francis, by the advice of all the Judges, in anno 36, Henry VIII, he did bear, and after used in all his purchases and grants.
Page 90 - ... of her own motion and consent, voluntarily changed, at confirmation, the name of her infant son to Edward, who when baptized was named Henry, for which she submitted to penance. " The penance enjoined -was to make a pilgrimage to the famous Rood of Grace, at the neighboring abbey of Boxley, and to carry in procession on five Lord's days, a lighted taper which she was to offer to the image of the Blessed Virgin. THE PAUCITY OF NAMES. There were no Scripture names in England when the Conqueror...
Page 51 - In the first ages of the world a single name was sufficient for each individual; and that name was generally invented for the person, in allusion to the circumstances attending his birth, or to some personal quality he possessed, or which his parents fondly hoped he might in future possess.
Page 89 - Brooke, by licence from the Archbishop of Canterbury;* but this is almost a solitary instance in modern times, as the occasion for it rarely arises. Before the Reformation, the unauthorized change of a Christian name was a grave offence. It is recorded in the consistorial acts of the Bishop of Rochester, that on Oct. 15, 1515, one Agnes Sharpe appeared and confessed that she had "of her own motion and consent, voluntarily changed, at confirmation, the name of her infant son to Edward, who was when...

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