Penna is a surname originating in Italy, in an area known as the Papal States. Since Papal names often denoted place of origin, the Penna family lived in one of several places in Italy named Penna.
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:
Kempthorne is a Cornish surname, and may refer to:
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:
Tremayne is a Cornish language surname.
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.
Nankivell and Nancekivell are surnames. Notable people with these surname include:
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".
Penix is a Cornish-language family name originating in Cornwall. In medieval times, people were known by their given names, but as the population grew, surnames were added based on the place that they owned or lived in to distinguish people from one another. While Celtic people tended to use patronymic names, many Cornish people used local place names as surnames, sometimes in addition to patronymics.
Dungey is an English-language surname of Cornish origin. Notable people with the surname include:
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.
Cornish is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Lander is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Blight is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include:
Trethowan is a Cornish surname, found both in Cornwall and amongst members of the Cornish diaspora. People with the name include:
Brokenshire is a surname of Cornish origin. The original derivation of the surname is unclear. It is found in the early 1600s, and possibly earlier, in the area around Roche, Cornwall, and formed a diaspora from there. Suggestions that Brokenshire is a regional variant of the early English / Yorkshire surname Burkinshaw, or similar, are unhelpful, since there is no explanation of the geographical split nor variance. It seems likely that the surname Brokenshire arose independently in Cornwall.
Trevaskis is a Cornish surname. Notable people with that name include:
Trethewey is a surname of Cornish origin. It is derived from any of the various settlements in Cornwall called Trethewey.
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