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Trewoofe Surname Definition:

TREWOOFE: From Trewoofe in Burian; from tre-woof the place frequented by blackbirds (from moelh, in compos. woelk, woof). Hals says the local name Trewoofe signifies "the town or dwelling of ob-yarn, such as the sail spinsters make, in order to be woof, or woven cross the warp in pieces of cloth, stuff, or serges, from whence was denominated a family of gentlemen named Trewoofe, who, out of a mistaken etymology of their name, gave for their arms, in a field, three wolves' heads; whereas try-bleith, try-bleit, is three wolves in Cornish.

Trewoofe Surname Meaning

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TREWOOFE: From Trewoofe in Burian; from tre-woof the place frequented by blackbirds (from moelh, in compos. woelk, woof). Hals says the local name Trewoofe signifies "the town or dwelling of ob-yarn, such as the sail spinsters make, in order to be woof, or woven cross the warp in pieces of cloth, stuff, or serges, from whence was denominated a family of gentlemen named Trewoofe, who, out of a mistaken etymology of their name, gave for their arms, in a field, three wolves' heads; whereas try-bleith, try-bleit, is three wolves in Cornish."

Patronymica Cornu-Britannica (1870) by Richard Stephen Charnock

TREWOOFE: An estate in Burian, co. Cornwall, the inheritance of the family in the XV. century. C. S. Gilbert's Cornwall.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

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