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more ilian read : — a list of Surnames in Norfolk derived from or 
identical witli tliose of Animals, Birds, Fish, and Plants. 
We commence this list with the names of four animals which arc 
often blazoned in heraldry and used as signs — ‘Bear,’ ‘Bull,’ ‘Bore,’ 
‘Buck,’ ‘Bullock,’ and ‘ Clutterbuck,’ which means a stirred or 
running buck. We have ‘ Bagge,’ the Swedish name for a ram ; and 
‘Budd,’ a young animal whose horns are beginning to grow; this is 
also the name of a beetle as well as part of a plant. ‘ Beevor ’ and 
‘ Brock,’ the old name for the badger, which animal is borne on the 
shield of the family. ‘ Batt,’ is from the Christian name Bartholomew. 
The badger was one rvho held a license to iDurchase corn from 
farmers. The trade and not the animal is probably the origin of 
the surname. 
Why the names of common animals generally have the last letter 
doubled when used as surnames I cannot tell, but so it is. Cat is 
sometimes even spelt Catte, but not in Norfolk. The names 
‘ Cavall ’ and ‘ Capel ’ have probably the same meaning, a horse, 
but the latter may be from capella. 
The surname ‘ Cony ’ is no doubt generally from the animal 
which is used in heraldry and on sign-boards ; — thus, Walter Cony, 
the noted mayor of Lynn ; but it is probable that some of the 
Norfolk Coneys take their name from the village, and are 
descendants of Godefridus dc Colneye, member of Parliament for 
Yarmouth in 1322. The name of the village is from coin, a 
pebble, in allusion to the stony nature of the river-bed at that 
place. The Camells arc a Diss family, one of whom. Dr. Camell, 
preached at St. Peter’s Mancroft at the beginning of the last 
century. Bloiuefield mentions Nicholas le Ewe, who bought the 
advowson of Wicklewood, a. b. 1219. If this name has died out, we 
have ‘Chilvers;’ and in the West of England an ewe sheep is called 
a chilver. 
‘ Deere,’ ‘Doe,’ ‘ Fitch,’ and ‘ Fox ’ are heraldic animals ; the last 
is often a corruption of Faux. We know the name is frc(j[ucntly 
thus mispronounced in speaking of Guy Faux. ‘Fawn,’ ‘Ferret.’ 
Bobert ‘Fitchet’ (polecat) was a rector of Harling. We have the 
name ‘ Goate,’ and ‘ Gates ’ from the Saxon gate, which word 
was used for gate as recently as Spenser’s time. 
‘Le Grice,’ the name of an old Norfolk family, means little pig ; 
another old word used as a surname is ‘Gray’ (badger); and as the 
