Surname Origins, Their Source and Significations (1875)

Hale,' 'Roger fil. Pagan,' 'Payen le Dubbour,' or 'Elis le Fitz-Payn,'and such surnames in the present as 'Pagan,' 'Payne,' 'Payn,' 'Paine,' 'Pain,' and 'Pynson.' The diminutive also was not wanting, as 'John Paynett' (Z) or 'Emma Paynot' (W 2) could have testified. Thus, while in our dictionaries ' pagan' still represents a state of heathenism, in our directories it has long ago been converted to the uses of Christianity, and become at the baptismal font a Christian name. 'Ivar,' or 'Iver,' still familiarised to Scotch-men in ' Mac-Iver,' came to the Normans from the northern lands whence they were sprung, and with them into England. It was not its first appearance here, as St. Ives of Huntingdonshire could have testified in the seventh century. Still its popular character was due to the Norman. Such names as 'Yvo de Taillbois' (1211), mentioned in Bishop Pudsey's 'Survey of the Durham See,' 'Ivo le Mercer,' 'Walter fil. Ive,' 'William Iveson,' 'Iveta Millisent,' or 'John fil. Ivette,' serve to show us how familiar was this appellation with both sexes.1 Nor are its descendants inclined to let its memory die. We have the simple 'Ive' and 'Ives ;' we have the more patronymic 'Iverson,' 'Ivison,' 'Iveson,' and 'Ison,' and the pet 'Ivetts' and 'Ivatts,' the latter possibly feminine in origin.

'Hamo,' or 'Hamon,' requires a paragraph for

1 Ivo de Usegate was Bailiff of York in 1271. A few years after we find the Church of Askam Richard, close to the city, given by William de Archis and Ivetta his wife to the Nunnery of Monkton. In 1729 Alicia Iveson was buried in St. Martin's, Micklegate. Thus in the one city we have memorials of the male, female, and hereditary use of this name.

PATRONYMIC SURNAMES.

itself. It is firmly imbedded in our existing nomenclature, and has played an important part in its time. Its forms were many, and though obsolete as baptismalnames, all have survived as surnames. Of these may be mentioned our 'Hamons,' 'Haymons,' 'Aymons,' and 'Fitz-Aymons.' Formed like 'Rawlyn,' 'Thomlin,' and 'Cattlin,' it bequeathed us 'Hamlyn,' a relic of such folk as 'Hamelyn de Trap' or 'Osbert Hamelyn.' Another change rung on the name is traceable in such entries as 'Hamund le Mestre,'

Hamond Cobeler,' or 'John Fitz-Hamond,' the source of our 'Hammonds' and 'Hamonds;' while in 'Alice Hamundson' or 'William Hamneson' we see the lineage of our many 'Hampsons.'But these are the least important. The Norman-French diminutive, 'Hamonet,' speedily corrupted into 'Hamnet' and 'Hammet,' became one of our favourite baptismalnames, and towards the reign of Elizabeth one of the commonest. A ' Hamnet de Dokinfield' is found so early as 1270 at Manchester (Didsbury Ch. Cheth. Soc.). Shakespeare's son was baptized 'Hamnet,' and was so called after 'Hamnet Sadler,' a friend of the poet's — a baker at Stratford. This man is styled 'Hamlet' also, reminding us of another pet form of the name. We have already mentioned 'Richard,' 'Christian,' 'Hugh,' and 'Hobbe,' as severally giving birth to the diminutives, ' Rickelot,' 'Crestelot,' 'Huelot,' and 'Hobelot.' In the same way, 'Hamon' became 'Hamelot,' or ' Hamelet,'hence such entries as 'Richard, son of Hamelot ' (AA 2), and 'Hamelot de la Burste' (Cal. and Inv. of Treasury). Out of fifteen 'Hamnets' set down in 'Wills and Inventories' (Cheth. Soc.), six are recorded as ' Hamlet,' one being

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