Patronymica Cornu-Britannica; or, Etymology of Cornish Surnames

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FALMOUTH. From the town of the same name; from Fal-mouth, mouth of the Fal, called the Prince's river. FAULL. The Cornish form of Panll. There is Tre- fI nil in Linru; i, l. h; and Panl, Panll are. found as surnames in Cornwall. Hence Fanlls. FAZAN, FAZON. See Pheasant. FELLENOWETH. See Vellenowetfi....
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FALMOUTH. From the town of the same name; from Fal-mouth, mouth of the Fal, called the Prince's river. FAULL. The Cornish form of Panll. There is Tre- fI nil in Linru; i, l. h; and Panl, Panll are. found as surnames in Cornwall. Hence Fanlls. FAZAN, FAZON. See Pheasant. FELLENOWETH. See Vellenowetfi. FENTON, VENTON, VENTOM. From fenton, ven- ton, a spring, fountain, well. There is Fenton in Ladock, and there are several names compounded of venton. But the Fentons aro not always from Cornwall. There are parishes and places called Fenton (perhaps the fenny enclosure or town ) in cos. Lincoln, Stafford, and York. FENTONGOLLAN (De). From Fenton-gollan. Venton- gollan, which, says Hals, was and is the soke lands of a considerable manor, which heretofore comprehended the whole parishes of St. Michael Ponkevil and Merther, except the tenements of Penkevill, Tregothnan,