Member of The Filson Club
FILSON CLUB PUBLICATION No. 22
THE QUEST FOR A
LOST RACE
Presenting the Theory of
PAUL B. Du CHAILLU
An Eminent Ethnologist and Explorer, that the English-speaking
People of To-day are Descended from the Scandinavians rather
than the Teutons—from the Normans rather than the Germans
BY
THOMAS E. PICKETT, M.D., LL.D.
Member of The Filson Club
READ BEFORE THE CLUB OCTOBER 1, 1906
Illustrated
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY
JOHN P. MORTON & COMPANY
Printers to The Filson Club
1907
COPYRIGHT, 1907
BY
The Filson Club
All Rights Reserved
Filson Club Publications
NUMBER TWENTY-TWO
The Quest for a
Lost Race
Alphabetical Series of Norse, Norman, and
Anglo-Norman, or Non-Saxon,
Surnames
BY
THOMAS E. PICKETT, M. D., LL. D.
Member of The Filson Club
PREFACE
The native Kentuckian has a deep and abiding affectionfor the "Old Commonwealth" which gave him birth.It is as passionate a sentiment, too—and some mightadd, as irrational—as the love of a Frenchman for his nativeFrance. But it is an innocent idolatry in both, and bothare entitled to the indulgent consideration of alien criticswhose racial instincts are less susceptible and whose emotionalnature is under better control. Here and there, acaptious martinet who has been wrestling, mayhap, with arefractory recruit from Kentucky, will tell you that the averageKentuckian is scarcely more "educable" than his ownhorse; that he is stubborn, irascible, and balky; far from"bridle-wise," and visibly impatient under disciplinary restraint.In their best military form Kentuckians have beensaid to lack "conduct" and "steadiness"—even the menthat touched shoulders in the charge at King's Mountainand those, too, that broke the solid Saxon line at the Battleof the Thames.
Whether this be true or not—in whole or in part—wedo not now stop to enquire. Suffice it to say that the Kentuckianhas been a participant in many wars, and has given[Pg iv]a good account of himself in all. In ordinary circumstances,too, he is invincibly loyal to his native State; and when ithappened that, in the