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Penfern Surname Definition:

PENFERN: From Penwarne, the appellation of several places in Cornwall; from pen-warne, -wern, -gwern, the head of the alder-trees; or it may be the same with Pen-foune, q. v. The manor of Kennal in Stithians belonged to Matthew Penfern, temp.

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PENFERN: From Penwarne, the appellation of several places in Cornwall; from pen-warne, -wern, -gwern, the head of the alder-trees; or it may be the same with Pen-foune, q. v. The manor of Kennal in Stithians belonged to Matthew Penfern, temp. Edw. II.

— Patronymica Cornu-Britannica (1870) by Richard Stephen Charnock
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