Nancarrow is a Cornish surname meaning the "valley of the deer". Notable people with the surname include:
Marchant is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Jenkin, of Franconian origin, is translated in English as "Little John" or more literally "John the little".
Michell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Paynter is a surname. It can either be of British origin, meaning "the head/end of the land" in the Cornish language, or it can be of English-language origin, where it is occupational and refers to a painter. It may refer to:
Edmonds is a surname derived from the given name Edmond.
Holman is an English and Dutch surname first recorded in Essex, England in the subsidy rolls of 1327. There are variants including: Hollman and Holeman. It is uncommon as a given name.
Grose is a surname of two possible origins. Cornish origin: a toponymic surname for a person who lived near a stone cross, from Cornish "crows" or "crous" for "cross". French origin: from Old French gros: "big, "fat", a variant of surname Gros.
Mundy is a surname of multiple origins. If of Norman origin, it is believed to have derived from Mondaye, which is the name of an abbey in Juaye-Mondaye, Normandy. The surname can also be of Irish origin
Bolitho is a surname of Cornish origin, derived from Bolitho in west Cornwall. Notable people with the surname include:
Tredinnick is a Cornish surname. It derives from one of the places called Tredinnick; Tredinnick is formed from the elements "tre-" (homestead) and either "dynek" (fortified), "eythynek" or "redynek".
Hosking is a surname of Cornish origin. In Cornwall there are also the variant forms Hosken, Hoskin and Hoskins. Unlike many Cornish surnames which are associated with a small district, Hosking and its variants are distributed in west Cornwall, mid Cornwall (Hoskins) and east Cornwall (Hoskin). It has the meaning "sedgeman", i.e. a thatcher who makes roofs of sedge.
Tebbutt is the surname of the following people:
Beaglehole or Beauglehole is a Cornish surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:
Couch is a surname. It has two different origins. It is a Cornish name thought to have derived from Cornish "cough" (red) and to have been a nickname for a redheaded man. The Cornish surname appears in 1160 as "Coh" and over the centuries as "Coch," "Cogh," "Cooch," "Cough," "Cuche," "Cowche," "Cowtch," "Coutch," etc., until the spelling became standardized in recent centuries, generally as "Couch." There is also an English name Couch which probably originated as a name for a maker of beds or bedding. The English surname has variant forms Coucha, Couche, Coucher, Couchman and Cowcha.
Trengove is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Biscoe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Cornish is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Lander is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Angove is a Cornish surname. This surname originates from the Cornish language, a Celtic language, and is common in Cornwall. The name is a compound of the definite article "an" i.e. the, plus the word "gov", meaning smith, and is thus an equivalent of the English surname Smith. In the 1881 UK census the surname Angove was restricted to Cornwall and the proportion of people with the surname Smith was much lower in Cornwall than elsewhere the UK. The name was originally an occupational name and denoted a metal worker, it is the most common Cornish occupational surname. During the 16th century the surname was limited to the western half of Cornwall where Cornish was still spoken.
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