12 TEESDALE PLACE-XAMES. 



Bee. 



It is curious that names ending in her do not occur in the 

 Teesdale district under notice, but that, in the small part of 

 "Westmorland given on Map C. 11, S.E., and continuous with our 

 district on the west, there should be found the following ten 

 names having this termination, viz. : — 



Bowber — Hill — bog-house hill — bar, house, and hoga, any- 

 thing that bends as a bog. 



Brownber — Hill — brown house hill. 



Brackenber — house at the brackens. '■'Bracken, fern, ab Angl. 

 break, because when dried up it is very brittle." Ray's Glossary. 

 BrackenSwry was and is a family name. Bracka, frangere, to 

 break. Ihre. Suio-Goth. Diet. 



Dogber — Tarn — ? from docce — the Dock. 



Hayber — Gill, gill of the Hay house ; ho Dan. and Swed. and 

 beer house. 



Kaber? 



Kirkber — kirk or church house. In Swedish, Korsbdr, kyrko- 

 bar, is church-berry, alias cherry. Can the cherry tree, on its 

 first introduction into Sweden, have been planted near the church 

 or in the churchyard, with the view of its better preservation, 

 as giving it perhaps a quasi-sacred character? It must have 

 been taken to Sweden after the introduction of Christianity, and 

 the building there of churches. Can it be possible that the above 

 district of "Westmorland was settled by Swedes ? This conjec- 

 ture, however, does not agree with the quotation from Cleasby 

 below : — 



The only instance my friend can remember of the cherry being 

 introduced into any religious story is in what is known as ' The 

 Cherry Tree Carol.' Before the birth of our Lord, the Blessed 

 Virgin, walking with Joseph through a garden gay, 



' Where the cherries they gi*ew 

 Upon every tree, 



asked him to gather her some of the fruit. He roughly refused 

 to do so, and then by a miracle the tree bent until the highest 



