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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Cornish : habitational name from places in the parishes of St. Allen and St. Michael Penkivel, so named from Cornish nans ‘valley’ + carow ‘deer’, ‘stag’ or garow ‘rough’.

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