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Trehawke Surname Definition:

TREHAWKE: From Trehawk in Menherriot; from tre-haugh, the upper town. Hals says: "Tre-havock in Menheniot—i. e. the hawk town—was taxed in Domesday (1087) as the voke-lands of a parish or manor, which is now suitably called, after the Cornish English, Tre-hauke; for that it seems heretofore it was a place notable for keeping, mewing, or breeding hawks (or for that those lands were held by the tenure of paying hawks to its lord); from which place was denominated an old family of gentlemen surnamed de Tre-hauke; who gave for their arms, in a field Sable, a chevron between three hawks.

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TREHAWKE: From Trehawk in Menherriot; from tre-haugh, the upper town. Hals says: "Tre-havock in Menheniot—i. e. the hawk town—was taxed in Domesday (1087) as the voke-lands of a parish or manor, which is now suitably called, after the Cornish English, Tre-hauke; for that it seems heretofore it was a place notable for keeping, mewing, or breeding hawks (or for that those lands were held by the tenure of paying hawks to its lord); from which place was denominated an old family of gentlemen surnamed de Tre-hauke; who gave for their arms, in a field Sable, a chevron between three hawks."

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

TREHAWKE: A place in the parish of Menheniot, co. Cornwall. The last Cornishman of the name died at Liskeard in 1790. C. S. Gilbert's Cornwall.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower
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