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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 2, 14 July 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

Aristocratic Names. — The Marquis of Anglesea is not a Paget ; his real name is Bayley. The Duke of Wellington is not a Wellington — not even a We'lesley — his family name is Colley. The Marquis of Normandy has not a drop of Normandy or Mulgrave blood in his veins. Lord Wilton is not an Bgerton, though he assumes that name. The Duke of Northumberland, calling himself Percy, is not a Percy, but a Smithson. Lord De Tabley is a Warren, though he calls himself by that respectable Cheshire name, but simply a Byrne, of undistinguished Irish descent. Neither is the Duke of Marlborough a Churchill; his real name is Spencer. The most notable metamorphosis lately witnessed in. Ireland is the Ventry pantronymic Sfullins info the, in every sense, romantic appellation of De Moulins ; and that of Hunt into the equally florid title of De Vere. When the head of a family undergoes a development of this sort, a whole concen> trie system of relationship, in various degrees of remoteness, exhibits a contemporaneous expadsioD and effloresence. In every country town an honest Mullins masquerades ss De Moulins, or a prosaic Hunt bewilders his neighbors in the character of De Verc — Dublin Mail