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Nancothan Surname Definition:
NANCOTHAN: From Nancothan in Madron, said to mean "the old Talley" (cooth, old); but it may be from nan-coit-an, "the woody Talley" (coit, coid, a wood). Hence the name Nacothan. John Nacothan occurs in the copy of a muster-book for the parish of Redruth in 1500.
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NANCOTHAN: From Nancothan in Madron, said to mean "the old Talley" (cooth, old); but it may be from nan-coit-an, "the woody Talley" (coit, coid, a wood). Hence the name Nacothan. John Nacothan occurs in the copy of a muster-book for the parish of Redruth in 1500.
— Patronymica Cornu-Britannica (1870) by Richard Stephen Charnock
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