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Penfoune Surname Definition:

PENFOUNE, PENFOWNE: Tonkin mentions a Penfoune in Poundstock as the seat of a very ancient family from thence denominated. Hals renders "Pen-fon, now Penfowne, in Poundstock, the head well, spring of water, or fountain but the name more probably means "the head of the well.

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Penfoune Surname Meaning

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PENFOUNE, PENFOWNE: Tonkin mentions a Penfoune in Poundstock as the seat of a very ancient family from thence denominated. Hals renders "Pen-fon, now Penfowne, in Poundstock, the head well, spring of water, or fountain but the name more probably means "the head of the well." Hence the names Penfound and Pin found.

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