Below you can find a list of the surnames ranked from 81st to 100 in terms of numbers of households in Cornwall in 1861. While most of those in the list still have their origin in first names (patronyms), a number of names from places (toponyms) and occupations are beginning to make an appearance.
Pengelly is a toponymic surname that came from multiple places of that name, which means end of the grove of trees, as this map of its early distribution would indicate.
On the other hand the family name Treloar expanded from just a single placename.
| rank | surname | type | number of households |
| =81 | Coomb | place-name | 151 |
| =81 | Warne | personal name | 151 |
| =84 | Clark | occupational name | 149 |
| =84 | Hore/Hoar | multiple | 149 |
| =84 | Vincent | personal name | 149 |
| 86 | Waters | personal name | 146 |
| 87 | Barrett | multiple | 145 |
| =89 | Courts/Curtis | personal name | 144 |
| =89 | Gill | personal name | 144 |
| =89 | Opie/Oppy | personal name | 144 |
| =89 | Tucker | occupational name | 144 |
| =92 | Clemo | personal name | 140 |
| =92 | Parsons | occupational name? | 140 |
| 94 | Pengelly | place-name | 138 |
| 95 | Parkin/Perkin | personal name | 137 |
| 96 | Hall | occupational name/nickname | 136 |
| 97 | Rodda | personal name? | 135 |
| 98 | Sanders/Saunders | personal name | 134 |
| =100 | Arthur | personal name | 133 |
| =100 | Perry | landscape or personal name | 133 |
| =100 | Treloar | place-name | 133 |
| =100 | Wallis | nickname | 133 |
You can check out the early maps of all these surnames here.
Further details of most of these names can also be found in my The Surnames of Cornwall.
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Good morning,
I am puzzled why Rosevear doesn’t occur in these lists, given that it is
‘native’ to clay country and the family is quite a big one. There may be
a rational reason, e.g. most had emigrated, being miners and farmers
overall?
All the best
Martin (Roseveare)
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Hi Martin. It’s no real surprise as you may have noticed that very few toponymic names such as Roseveare made it to the top 100. The ones that did either stem from a placename that was very common or presumably became surnames early or, like Treloar, were exceptionally fertile, a result of living in the right place at the right time. Incidentally, Rosevear/e comes in at number 207 on the list.
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Hello, I was doing some digging in my family tree and was wondering if anyone could help me. I went back all the way to Gwennap, Cornwall England in 1661. His name is Edmond Bonds. He was born in 1661 and died in 1715. He married Margery Richard’s. Is there any way to see how far my family goes back? I didn’t see the surname bonds in the top 100 surnames so I was wondering if it was called something else.
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Bonds was just a (rare) example of the addition of the suffix -s to the surname Bond. That name appeared in Cornwall from the time of the earliest medieval records but almost entirely in the English-speaking east, which is what we would expect given its status as a nickname for a peasant farmer bound to a lord. Incidentally, the surname Bond (including Bonds) comes in at number 192 in the list of surnames in Cornwall in 1861. If you haven’t already done so, you might discover possible earlier family by searching the OPC parish record database at https://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/
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