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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Cornish : habitational name from a place in the parish of Gwinear, recorded in 1316 as Polkenhoern, from Cornish pol ‘pool’, ‘pond’ + the Old Cornish personal name Kenhoern (composed of elements meaning ‘hound’ + ‘iron’).

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