Beads of baked earth, cylindrical and of all shapes, with smooth or polished surfaces, mostly colored black and red, were fairly common. - [link to en.wikipedia.org] My name, Bedard is derived from Beda (white mother) and Beade is where we get Rosary (Rose-ary) beads that we had taken from the old ways and incorporated them into the Catholic Church.BEAD, whence Bedehouse, Bedesman, BederollThe old