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Dictionary of
Family Names
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Origin and Etymology of the Surname ANTHONY,
ANTONY, ANTONISON.
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From
A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, by C. W. E. Bardsley,
A. Bardsley, 1901, and,
An Etymological
Dictionary of Family and Christian Names, by William Arthur, M. A.,
1857.
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ANTHONY, ANTONY,
ANTONISON. Bardsley
has: A baptismal name meaning "the son of Antony"; the h
is intrusive. "Antony, propyr name, Antonius":
Prompt. Parv. The name had become fairly popular in England in the
13th century, as having been borne by the great hermit of the 4th
century. He was the patron saint of the swineherd, and "as fat
as a Tantony pig," and "to follow like a Tantony pig," became
proverbial expressions; v. Yonge, i. 306; Halliwell, i. 67. "I
have behest a pygge to Saynt Antony"; v. Prompt. Parv. p. 29, and note by
Way.
Arthur has: (Greek) From
ἄνθος,
a flower; flourishing, beautiful, graceful.
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