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panied by important changes in the population, and the lecturer 

 proceeded to deal from his point of view with a series of names 

 derived from the period of Danish-Anglo-Saxon occupation, and 

 the succeeding period in which the Norman authority and 

 influence prevailed. Surnames, as such, did not, he said, come 

 into use in England till the end of the eleventh century, and were 

 a slow growth for about three centuries afterwards, but as it was 

 the individual appellative which, as a rule, passed into use as a 

 Surname, it would be understood that the study of the former 

 really included that of the latter. 



In dealing with the names of the earliest period, the lecturer 

 found occasion to explain various phases of the old Teutonic 

 name-giving system, afterwards passing on to those names of 

 much later date, which were descriptive of a man's calling or the 

 situation of his humble abode. The last named furnished a large 

 proportion of our present day Surnames. 



In dealing with Norman names, Mr. Milligan reminded the 

 audience that the Normans themselves were closely related by 

 blood to the Saxons and the Danes, therefore, as might be 

 expected, the personal names of their leaders, which by that time 

 had become Christian names in the modern sense of the phrase, 

 were mostly of the same Teutonic pattern as he had already dealt 

 with ; but as his object was rather now to illustrate the culture 

 which the hardy Norsemen had assimilated in their Continental 

 surroundings, and which they were the means of introducing into 

 this country, he purposely confined himself in his concluding 

 remarks to a review of those names derived from office, function, 

 or occupation of that period. 



A large proportion of the Surnames in common use with us 

 to-day were, he reminded them, merely debased forms of French 

 place-names originally introduced by the Barons as descriptive of 

 their seats in Normandy. 



The animated discussion which followed was promoted by 

 Miss E. Andrews and Messrs. Cunningham and Moore. 



