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Tencreek Surname Definition:

TENCREEK: From Tencreek in Creed, which Hals derives from "ten-creek, or tene-cruck, the fire bank or tumulus, viz., the sepulchre of one interred there before the 6th century, whose body wad burnt to ashes by fire, according to their accustomed manner of interring the dead; and his bones and ashes laid up in an urn or earthen pot, in a bank, or barrow, or tumulus, upon some part of the lands of this barton.

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TENCREEK: From Tencreek in Creed, which Hals derives from "ten-creek, or tene-cruck, the fire bank or tumulus, viz., the sepulchre of one interred there before the 6th century, whose body wad burnt to ashes by fire, according to their accustomed manner of interring the dead; and his bones and ashes laid up in an urn or earthen pot, in a bank, or barrow, or tumulus, upon some part of the lands of this barton." But the name means rather the dwelling by the barrow or hillock; from tre-, tren-cryk.

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