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If you’re attempting to use past distributions of surnames to pinpoint their origin, names from places (for example Trevithick or Penrose) clearly hold out the best chance of success. Nevertheless, sometimes the early pattern of nicknames or even surnames from first names can provide clues as to where that surname may have first arisen in a particular district or region.

For instance Moyle seems to have multiplied in mid-Cornwall on both sides of the Camel estuary, an interesting distribution given the claim that it was a nickname from the Cornish language word for bald.

The early distribution of another nickname – Knight – which we are told was adopted for someone acting as or exhibiting the characteristics of a knight, point to a clear origin in the far south east of Cornwall. Given its ramification by the 1500s, it was probably a name that had emerged as a surname a couple of centuries earlier.

In the meantime, here’s some more surnames to take us up to number 60 in our list of the surnames of Cornwall. You can check out the early maps of these here.

Further details of most of these names can be found in my The Surnames of Cornwall.

https://bernarddeacon.com/2024/10/02/even-nicknames-start-somewhere/

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👀 For the second time in two years, a major #SupremeCourt #abortion #Decision #leaked before the #justices officially released it. This time with #Moyle it is blamed on clerical error.

#Moyle asks whether #states can ignore a #federal law which requires most #hospitals to provide #emergency care IN STATE to #patients who need it — including #abortions if that is the appropriate #MedicalTreatment.

https://www.vox.com/scotus/357302/supreme-court-leaked-abortion-moyle-united-states