USE AND ORIGIN OF SURNAMES. 37 
trades are derived Merchant, Draper, Hawker. 
Numerous handicrafts have been adapted as sur- 
names— Turner, Carpenter, Cooper, Mason, 
Thatcher, Weaver, Arrowsmith, Cartwright, §c. 
And the following are to be referred to character 
and personal qualities—Meek, Cross, Merry, 
Wilde, Jolly, Moody, Wiseman, Idle, Long, 
Short, Strong, Swift, Quick, White, Brown, 
Scarlet, Green, Black, Armstrong, Strongitharm, 
Merriman, Sharp, Savage, Gay, &c. 
In reference to the surnames which have passed 
from trades and employments to those who fol- 
lowed them, it is to be remarked, that those only 
have been thus appropriated which were known 
and in practice in comparatively early times; 
whereas those which had their origin in later times 
—since about the reign of Elizabeth—will not be 
found to have come into use as surnames Thus 
the denominations Smith, Taylor, Potter, Fuller, 
Arrowsmith, §c. are very numerous; but we have 
no Confectioner, Banker, Barrister, Printer, &c. 
whose origin is of later date. This observation 
if correct, will furnish some means of discovering 
the time when surnames came into use in this 
country. 
