In the Devonian (and east Cornish) dialect the sound often became .

They are my 5th GGP. It has been gradually revived since the 1980s and with it came the introduction of several vocabulary and nature words used as names e.g Elowen "elm" and Derowen "oak." My great grandparents were Cornish. Redruth and the surrounding area. The usual surname dictionaries offer no help. At th... ... dainty, trim, tricked up, brisk, smirk, and smug, even as a pretty little Cornish chough. Martyn was the original spelling of Martin. Clemo (son of Clement), Bennetto (son of Bennett), Kitto (son of Christopher), Sandow and Santo (son of Alexander) and Jacka (son of Jack [John]). Incidentally, I think you can get the ebook version of my book in Australia.

The Cornish people or Cornish (Cornish: Kernowyon, Old English: Cornwealas) are a Celtic ethnic group and nation native to, or associated with Cornwall and a recognised national minority in the United Kingdom, which can trace its roots to the ancient Britons who inhabited southern and central Great Britain before the Roman conquest. Of the famous rhyme by Richard Carew ‘By the names Tre, Pol and Pen you will know Cornishmen’ Deacon explains, “Actually, you won’t. A patronymic based on the first name William actually makes it the Norman bit! I believe Trewolla means lower manor in the old language. Wish I’d found all this sooner.

By the 19th century the name had spread but in Cornwall only as far as parishes to the west in West Penwith.. Eustice was my maiden name and my Fathers family from Crowlas, while doing my family history there are numerous variations many without the ‘E’, Ustice etc….In my early years nobody knew how to spell it and even sometimes pronounce it My son-in-laws Gundry family from Portsmouth I have found a few of these in Ludgvan. I wonder whether there’s a connection with Rogers, which was frequent in the same areas and also gave rise to the name Hodge. Or studies in the history of the Cornish language. ..Question, can i ask does my family surname of JOB/JOBE appear in your book..?…..

I have DNA matches with a couple of Gribbles in the Camborne area but the match be through another common ancestor. Thanks Gretta for your question. In the early 16th there was a Growse family in Bradwell on Sea, including one renting a tidal mill there …. At least three of these seem to have given rise to the surname by the early 16th century, when it was quite common, in the west at Phillack, St Ives, Ludgvan and Breage, on the Lizard at Mawgan in Meneage and St Keverne, in mid-Cornwall at Gorran and St Ewe, plus another cluster at Mawgan in Pydar, St Columb Major and Little Petherick. google_ad_slot = "6416241264";

I debunked that story many years ago. I was once attracted to the theory that perhaps Grose had come from Crows but hadn’t found the examples to prove it.

As there are at least 12 places in Cornwall called Polglase or Polglaze, it’s likely the family name had multiple origins. Arundell of Lanherne and Trerice. Later in St. Austell area.

The first recorded instance is in the National Dictionary in 1547.

Cornish surname dictionaries assert that the Cornish Grose has no connection with the nickname Gros (for a big man). Is Around 1900 the family moved to Troon in Camborne so I got the mining idea too. The lack of a pattern makes me wonder if the name is a variant spelling of another surname, but which I have no idea. Did those early Gribbles migrate east to the central mining district? Pol (pit, pool, sometimes originally Porth (cove) – e.g. Yes, Trembath is a farm in Madron. The name is usually spelt Trist in Cornwall but doesn’t seem to appear until 1774 at Rame. But which one as there were at least 11 examples of this placename in late medieval times – at Altarnun, Creed, Crowan, Cuby, Fowey, Mylor, Philleigh, St Austell, St Erme, St Mabyn and St Veep? At Tregony William Lene’s surname was spelt Lene, Lenne and Len in three differing records. In 1861 there were 144 families in Cornwall headed by a Varcoe/Vercoe. Anything on the name ‘Treverton’? It was found in St Ewe and St Dennis as early as the 1520s and has remained heavily concentrated in mid-Cornwall and the clay country ever since. bwdeacon, just one very important question: do you really tell the purely Cornish surnames and Manx surnames apart ? The further I go back, the more the names seem to become more Latin sounding, like Richardi, Richardus, Cypriani, Honoria and the glorious one of Georgius Gregorius. I wasn’t aware Pasco had any Jewish origins.

And then rather mysteriously there are no Tregos or Tragos at all listed in the 1861 census. I notice it’s not in your list but thought you might have insight? to the meaning but the -ow ending suggests a patronymic like Clemow, Sandow. Hi Carrie, There’s a brief entry on Ivey in the book – page 83. Cornish surnames: | |Cornish surnames| are surnames used by |Cornish people| and often derived from the |Corn... World Heritage Encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most definitive collection ever assembled. The name Endean emerged quite late – during the 16th century – as a surname in mid-Cornwall and was found in the 1800s in the district between Truro and St Austell.

Cornish name generator . Kind regards, Maybe those who emigrated early enough, such as my own family, kept the original version of the name?

Some years later in mid-16th century, just down the road, there is a parson of Fordley called Laurence Cruse, cited in a will, and a Rector of Middleton-cum-Fordley called Lawrence Growse, all probably the same? Trenhailes were from King Harry Ferry/Feock area but unsure of that. I was told the last name Triste was Cornish, is it true? I have a book called Cornish Family Names.On my mother’s side there’s Fidock and it’s variant include fiddick The name actually has a celtic meaning Budhek= Victorious in the same way as Biddick which is Budek same meaning. Many Cornish surnames and place names still retain these words as prefixes, such as the names Trelawny or Trevithick and the towns of Polperro, Polkerris and of course Penzance. It appears in several field names but also at hamlets in Liskeard and St Martin in Meneage parishes. Indeed, we find this is the explanation given in the surname dictionaries, which state that the name is particularly common in Devon. The name is definitely NOT a Huguenot name as it was well established by the 1520s, a century and a half before the Huguenot migration. He was my maternal grandfather,the other three grandparents were Welsh. I cannot find that name anywhere.

(Verran, Verrant). Which I believe is a Cornish name.

Surnames found at high frequencies in both Wales and Cornwall include: Owing to the gradual language shift in Cornwall from the native Cornish language to English, approximately until the mid-18th century, some Cornish language surnames underwent change through folk etymology. Cocking was more likely to be found in Cornwall in 1881 than anywhere else. Caution should be exercised with the derivation of "Car-" surnames as there seems also to be fusion with names containing the word ker "hill-fort", as in "Carvosso" ker fosow "walled hill-fort", a placename found in Ludgvan. Maybe I’ll find a bit of Cornwall running through me someday! Cornish surname dictionaries assert that the Cornish Grose has no connection with the nickname Gros (for a big man). What a great post and fascinating comments. It’s more likely that Old/Olds derives originally from the English ‘old’, in the sense of ‘senior’ rather than aged. This article was sourced from Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. In his book A Glossary of Cornish Surnames on p.103, Bannister records the name as being of Cornish origin: “Olds, n.f,’\ = als, a cliff” (https://archive.org/stream/glossaryofcornis00bann/glossaryofcornis00bann_djvu.txt). Court roll Carmynow 1513, Friday 7th Oct = cl 1514, 12th Feb = c2 1514,…

The earliest reference to someone in the parish registers called Trago is Polider Trago at Bodmin, not that far from the place, in 1621.

         Sexual Content Environmental concern on the streets of Truro? I have these names in my Family Tree: Trewax, Pengwern, Wallys and something that sounds like “amps-snee” (spelling unsure) all claim to be Cornish. c2. This provides us with a distinct stock of surnames, some exclusively Cornish, some commonly Cornish and some frequently Cornish, but all borne by Cornish people or their descendants. The meaning of the place-name is either ‘farm at a place of trees’ or Budock or Bidic’s farm. In 1641 only 7% were Mills, the rest still Mill. The earliest Bennettos / Benettaws that I have been able to trace (three males – who may have been brother or cousins – called, Richard, Benat (or possibly Benedict) and John) seem to originate from St Just in Penwith in the mid 1500s but their marriages, and the baptisms of their children, all occurred in Sancreed Parish. I’ve got a family bible which was started by a Richard Toy of Wendron, born 1839. My surname is Trego and I’ve always been told it’s Cornish, and indeed my family are all from the Westcountry, but I’ve struggled to trace it beyond 150 or so years ago, and even then it doesn’t take it all the way back to Cornwall or a specific location.

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By 1861 the Wattys had declined and converged with the Watts. Thinking further about this, the suggestion it was a patronymic from Benet can’t be right, as that gave Benetto. I have able to trace my EDYVEAN family in Cornwall back to the mid 1700’s.

My family came to South Australia in 1839.

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However, prior to hearing him say that I had read that “Traywick” came from “Trevithick” (I *think*), and so, even though the focus of this article was more on what Cornish surnames *don’t* begin with, for example, “Tre”, I’m now interested to know: *Is* this a Cornish name?

:S. Traywick is not a variant of Trevithick that I’ve come across before.

Hi there. Nearer to Gwennap the surname appears at Mabe and Budock in the early 1670s.

Names like Collins and Harris were certainly found from the earliest days of hereditary surnames in Cornwall in the 15th century. Hello again Bernard, did you ever reach an opinion about the origin of the family name Growse in Essex and Suffolk?If you remember I thought there were traces of the name Growse in Carminow (which subsequently seem to have become Grose).

I have heard it is also Gilbart or even Jelbert. It may have originally been spelt as Dustan or Dunstone.

Love to hear from any of my relatives in Cornwall. I wouldn’t put too much credence in the derivations given in Bannister, which like those in Pawley White’s book on surnames tend to look for any similarities with Cornish words and stop there.

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