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CATTI& CASSI PERSONAL NAMES IN BRITAIN 215

Metapontum with its ship-building trade was a colony of the Pheenicians ; and that this coin with the Ear of Corn, as in the Briton coins, was Phoenician in origin as well as Phoenician in symbolic solar meaning, as seen later. |

Vestiges also of the name of the Catti, Khatti or Gad tribal title of the Aryan-Pheenician civilizers of Britain clearly survive in several personal surnames of the present day, whose bearers presumably inherit that Aryan-Phoenician title by patrilinear descent. Thus, for example, the following surnames are more or less clearly of this origin and varying only in different phonetic forms of spelling the same name :Keith, Scott (from Xatti), Gait, Gates, Cotes, Coats, Coutts, Cotton, Cotteril, Cheatle, Cuthell, Cautley, Caddell, Cawdor, Guthrie, Chadwick, Cadman and Caedmon, Gadd, Gadsby, Geddes, Kidd, Kitson, Judd, Siddons, Seton, etc., and the lowland Scottish clan of Chattan. And amongst the Cassi series—the Kazzi or Qass of the Newton Stone—are Case, Casey, Cassels, Cash, Goss, Gosse, and the still-persisting French term for the Scot of “ Ecossais.”’ And similarly with the surnames derived from Barat or Prat, Gioln or ’Alaun, Sumer and Mur, Mor or Muru—e.g., Barret, Burt, Boyden, etc., Gillan, Cluny, Allan, ete., Summers, Cameron (of Moray-Firth), etc., Marr, Murray, Martin, etc.

1Surmames are generally stated to have been first introduced into 3ritain by the Normans, 7.e. by a branch of the Nordic Gothic Aryans. Yet there are many classic instances of family surnames in ancient history, patrician and other. It is in any case probable that, when the fashion of surnames was made obligatory in Britain, those tamilies who were so entitled adopted the name of their tribe, clan or subclan, which indeed we find as a fact many of them did. Such modern surnames thus seem to supply a presumption of some racial significance through the father’s side,

despite the intermixture through more or less intermarriage with other racial elements.

Fic. 258. Catti coin inscribed Ccefio from Gaul. (After Poste.)