Brief Life History of Matilda
When Matilda Cornwall was born about 1409, her father, John de Cornwall, was 35 and her mother, Joan de Wasteneys, was 32.
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English:
habitational name from the county of Cornwall, which is named with the Old English tribal name Cornwealas. This is from Kernow (the term that the Cornish used to refer to themselves, a word of uncertain etymology, perhaps connected with a Celtic element meaning ‘horn, headland’), + Old English wealas ‘strangers, foreigners’, the term used by the Anglo-Saxons for British-speaking people.
variant of Cornwell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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