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Trevorva Surname Definition:

TREVORVA: From Trevorva in Probus; from tre-vor-ra, the dwelling at the ford place; or tre-wartha, the higher dwelling. Tonkin renders Trevorva, the dwelling on the good road (tre-vor-va, va for da), "but called so, I suppose, by the rule of contraries, the road being one of the deepest and worst in the whole country; but which, according to The old proverb, is 'Bad for the rider, but good for the bider, ' making ameuds by the richness of its soil.

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TREVORVA: From Trevorva in Probus; from tre-vor-ra, the dwelling at the ford place; or tre-wartha, the higher dwelling. Tonkin renders Trevorva, the dwelling on the good road (tre-vor-va, va for da), "but called so, I suppose, by the rule of contraries, the road being one of the deepest and worst in the whole country; but which, according to The old proverb, is 'Bad for the rider, but good for the bider, ' making ameuds by the richness of its soil." The same writer says the last of the family had an only daughter and heiress, who married-Williams, of Herringstone, co. Dorset.

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