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Prewbody Surname Definition:

PREWBODY: I have met with this name in one county only-that county of extraordinary surnames, Cornwall. It appears to be one of the compounds of Body, from the Anglo-Saxon boda, a messenger. The first syllable may possibly be a contraction of preost, priest, and if so, the name may be interpreted, either as "priest's messenger," or as "priestly messenger.

Prewbody Surname Meaning

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PREWBODY: I have met with this name in one county only-that county of extraordinary surnames, Cornwall. It appears to be one of the compounds of Body, from the Anglo-Saxon boda, a messenger. The first syllable may possibly be a contraction of preost, priest, and if so, the name may be interpreted, either as "priest's messenger," or as "priestly messenger."

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

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