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Surnames, their origin and their meaning

Many surnames are associated with the place/locality of where the family lived and in those cases the location is noted as the meaning.
Many surnames are associated with the occupation of the person given the name.

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Surname		Origin	Meaning
Acheson		Cornish-British	An inscription or memorial
Alverston		Cornish-British	al, high, ver, green, and don or ton, a hill
Alverton		Cornish-British	al, high, ver, green, and don or ton, a hill
Aylsworth		Cornish-British	Ayles, low meadow, flat lands, washed by a river, sea, or lake, and gwerth, a worth, farm, house, village
Balen		Cornish-British	Melen, a mill
Banvard		Cornish-British	ban, a mount, hill, or high ground
Barnes		Cornish-British	Barnyz, a judge
Belden		Cornish-British	Beildin, the hill of Belus, a place of Druid-worship
Binney		Cornish-British	Bin, a hill; and ey, water
Bodley		Cornish-British	Bod, a house, and ley
Bolster		Cornish-British	Bolla, a casting or throwing up, and ter, the earth
Bonnal		Cornish-British	The house on the cliff
Borland		Cornish-British	bor, swelling, rising, and land
Boscawen		Cornish-British	the town in Cornwall
Bostwick		Cornish-British	Bos, a house, and wick, a haven or creek
Bowne		Cornish-British	Signifies ready, active, nimble
Brendon		Cornish-British	Bren, a crow, and dun or don, a hill
Brenigan		Cornish-British	A limpet
Brenin		Cornish-British	Brenhin, a triutary prince
Brisban		Cornish-British	brez or brys, a judgment, a trial at law, and ban, a hill, a mount
Brisbin		Cornish-British	brez or brys, a judgment, a trial at law, and ban, a hill, a mount
Broster		Cornish-British	Greatness, majesty
Burlase		Cornish-British	The green summit or top
Cairn		Cornish-British	A circular mound of stones
McWithy		Cornish-British	son of the weaver
Molloy		Cornish-British	The dusty or hoary mill
Neil		Cornish-British	power, might
Nel		Cornish-British	power, might
Orvis		Cornish-British	place on or near an entrenchment
Carwin		Cornish-British	caer, a castle, and win or gwin, white
Cay		Cornish-British	Kea, inclosure
Pellyn		Cornish-British	The distant pool
Pengilly		Cornish-British	The head of the grove
Penn		Cornish-British	The top of the hill
Pennant		Cornish-British	From Pen, a head, and nant, a vale, or dingle
Pillings		Cornish-British	The distant pool
Plympton		Cornish-British	The town situated on the river Plym, in Devonshire, England
Radford		Cornish-British	The fern way
Radland		Cornish-British	The fern land
Radnor		Cornish-British	The enclosure of ferns
Redden		Cornish-British	A place of ferns
Reese		Cornish-British	Pushing, violent; a strong or powerful man
Rheese		Cornish-British	Pushing, violent; a strong or powerful man
Rodden		Cornish-British	A place of ferns
Rowle		Cornish-British	Rule, order, law
Scudmore		Cornish-British	scoudh, or scuth, the shoulders, and mor, big, large
Sears		Cornish-British	sair, a carpenter or sawyer
Sheldon		Cornish-British	schell, a spring, and dene, a small valley
Skidmore		Cornish-British	scoudh, or scuth, the shoulders, and mor, big, large
Chickering		Cornish-British	chi, a house, and cairne, a rock or stones
Clapp		Cornish-British	Full of chat, tonguey
Colburn		Cornish-British	The dry well, or the well on the neck of the hill
Foss		Cornish-British	The entrenchment, moat, or ditch
Stratton		Cornish-British	The hill full of fresh springs
Stretton		Cornish-British	The hill full of fresh springs
Trelawney		Cornish-British	open town near the water
Tremaine		Cornish-British	town on the shore or sea-coast
Trevelyan		Cornish-British	Trevellyan, the town of the mill
Trevor		Cornish-British	Trevear, the great town
Urran		Cornish-British	From urrian, the border, boundary, or limit of a country
Venton		Cornish-British	A spring well
Vickers		Cornish-British	Vicar, a sovereign lord.
Coombs		Cornish-British	A place between hills, a valley
Corwin		Cornish-British	caer, a castle, and win or gwin, white
Fry		Cornish-British	A hill, a town or house on the most prominent part of a hill or eminence
Garrah		Cornish-British	The top of the hill
Gilly		Cornish-British	The wood or grove of hazel
Godolphin		Cornish-British	Godol, a little valley, and phin or phince, springs
Golburn		Cornish-British	The holy well
Gollah		Cornish-British	The bottom, or low place
Golly		Cornish-British	The bottom, or low place
Griffith		Cornish-British	Cryf, Welsh, strong, and ffyd, faith
Hales		Cornish-British	moor
Hoskins		Cornish-British	Heschen or Hoskyn, the place of rushes
Howell		Cornish-British	Houl, the sun
Keigwin		Cornish-British	kei, a dog, and gwyn, white
Kennicot		Cornish-British	Chennicat, a singer
Kiskey		Cornish-British	Blessed, happy
Lambourne		Cornish-British	Lambron, the inclosure of the round hill
Lamport		Cornish-British	From lam or lan, a place, and port, a harbor
Landon		Cornish-British	Lan, an inclosure, and dun, a hill or town
Lanyon		Cornish-British	furzy inclosure

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