Volume 034-2 - April 1980 (8 pages)

APPENDIX II CORNISH NAMES, LISTED IN THE NEVADA CITYGRASS VALLEY TELEPHONE DIRECTORY A. Names for which the meaning is known (according to A.L. Rowse) Angove Angwin Argall Benallack BoaseBosanketh Bosanko Bray (bree) Chellew Chenoweth Chynoweth smith white or fair man retreat, shelter broom-brake dwelling dwelling in the wood dwelling in the wood hill house by the pool or house of Lew new house new house Clemo (Climo, Clyma, Clemow, Clymo) Coomb (-e, -8) Coon (-8) Corin Couch Crase (Craze) Cundy Curnow Ennis Ennor Eva Fenton Goldsworthy Henwood Hocking dweller on the slopes, son of Clem little valley dog man old first name red haired, red faced middle of a place house of the dog man Cornishman island, peninsula the boundary old first name spring or well field of the fair field of the feast old wood little fellow Hosken (Hosking, Hoskins, Hoskin) -Jago (Jagoe) Jewel Kent Lander Lanyon Leah (Leahy) Lean Menet (Menhennet) Minear Moyle Nance Nankervis Pascoe Pello (-w) Penaluna Pengelly Penna Penrose Polglase Retallick Rodda Rosevear Rule Skewes Spargo sedge marsh James from St. Juhel or St. Judicael people of the corner churchyard, enclosure bleak enclosure or pool flat stone stitch of land or pool parish of the long stone, or menhir menhir, stone bald valley valley of the deer easter child round headed end of grove or pool end of the copse hill top, summit top of the heath green pool steep hill spur personal name big heath or moor furrow or cleft sheltered place thorn brake Teague Trathen Trebotich Treganowan Tregaskis Treloar Tremaine Tremewan Tremoureux Trevenna Trevethick Trevillyan Trewhella Truscott Uren Veal Vivian (Vyvyan) fair, beautiful sandy place (not in Rowse’s list) homestead at the mouth or hollow homestead in sheltered place homestead with garden homestead by the stone homestead of (name) (not in Rowse’s list) homestead on the hill homestead of (name) homestead of Milian homestead by the stream across the wood swamp, marsh Mael (pers. name) personal name Wallis (Walsh, Welsh, Welch) Warne (Wearne) stranger (a Saxon) swamp B. Old Cornish names for which derivation is unclear or unknown. Bawden Berryman Bice Brokenshire Bunney Cargile Carne Carskadon Cooley Cornish (Curnow) Easterbrook, Esterbrook Eudy Gillis Grenfell Ivey, Ivie, Ivy Kinsman Merrifield Odgers Polhemus Pollard Pollock Pomeroy Prisk Rouse, Rowe, Rowse Snell Tamblyn Toy Triplett 13.

APPENDIX II CORNISH NAMES, LISTED IN THE NEVADA CITYGRASS VALLEY TELEPHONE DIRECTORY A. Names for which the meaning is known (according to A.L. Rowse) Angove Angwin Argall Benallack BoaseBosanketh Bosanko Bray (bree) Chellew Chenoweth Chynoweth smith white or fair man retreat, shelter broom-brake dwelling dwelling in the wood dwelling in the wood hill house by the pool or house of Lew new house new house Clemo (Climo, Clyma, Clemow, Clymo) Coomb (-e, -8) Coon (-8) Corin Couch Crase (Craze) Cundy Curnow Ennis Ennor Eva Fenton Goldsworthy Henwood Hocking dweller on the slopes, son of Clem little valley dog man old first name red haired, red faced middle of a place house of the dog man Cornishman island, peninsula the boundary old first name spring or well field of the fair field of the feast old wood little fellow Hosken (Hosking, Hoskins, Hoskin) -Jago (Jagoe) Jewel Kent Lander Lanyon Leah (Leahy) Lean Menet (Menhennet) Minear Moyle Nance Nankervis Pascoe Pello (-w) Penaluna Pengelly Penna Penrose Polglase Retallick Rodda Rosevear Rule Skewes Spargo sedge marsh James from St. Juhel or St. Judicael people of the corner churchyard, enclosure bleak enclosure or pool flat stone

stitch of land or pool parish of the long stone, or menhir menhir, stone bald valley valley of the deer easter child round headed end of grove or pool end of the copse hill top, summit top of the heath green pool steep hill spur personal name big heath or moor furrow or cleft sheltered place thorn brake Teague Trathen Trebotich Treganowan Tregaskis Treloar Tremaine Tremewan Tremoureux Trevenna Trevethick Trevillyan Trewhella Truscott Uren Veal Vivian (Vyvyan) fair, beautiful sandy place (not in Rowse’s list) homestead at the mouth or hollow homestead in sheltered place homestead with garden homestead by the stone homestead of (name) (not in Rowse’s list) homestead on the hill homestead of (name) homestead of Milian homestead by the stream across the wood swamp, marsh Mael (pers. name) personal name Wallis (Walsh, Welsh, Welch) Warne (Wearne) stranger (a Saxon) swamp B. Old Cornish names for which derivation is unclear or unknown. Bawden Berryman Bice Brokenshire Bunney Cargile Carne Carskadon Cooley Cornish (Curnow) Easterbrook, Esterbrook Eudy Gillis Grenfell Ivey, Ivie, Ivy Kinsman Merrifield Odgers Polhemus Pollard Pollock Pomeroy Prisk Rouse, Rowe, Rowse Snell Tamblyn Toy Triplett 13.