OPIE (Cornish) from the medieval given name 'Oppy, Obby', a diminutive of various names such as 'Osborn, Osbert, and Osbald'. TREGUNNA (Cornish) habitation name, probably from a place in the parish of St. Breock, so called from Cornish 'tre' (homestead, settlement + a second element of unknown form and meaning). This name, or its variations may also be from various places called 'Tregon(n)a' or 'Tregenna', which are likewise from 'tre' + an unknown second element. One variation: Tregunno means 'a place in the parish of Breage'. RETALLICK (Cornish) Variation of "RETALLACK", habitation name from any of four places in Cornwall. Two of them are from Cornish 'res' (ford) + 'helyk' (willow trees); the other two are either from 'res' + 'halek' (muddy, marshy), or from 'res' + 'talek' (steep-browed) [which also occurs as a personal name]. Source: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. Barbara Shaz wrote: > Does anyone know the origins of the above names. Any help would be greatly > appreciated. > > Sharon > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gloria & Bruce Wilson" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 4:42 AM > Subject: [SURNAME-ORIGINS] [Fwd: SURNAMES: TREME, GANIER, BREWER] > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --------------A9EAE4366D0294F9880A0E47 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > Could someone please send me some info? > > > > Thank you > > > > --------------A9EAE4366D0294F9880A0E47 > > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Content-Disposition: inline > > > > X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 14:36:42 -0600 > > From: BruceandGloria <[email protected]> > > Reply-To: [email protected] > > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-CCK-MCD EZN\NS4x\Win (Win95; U) > > X-Accept-Language: en > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: SURNAMES: TREME, GANIER, BREWER > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > Could you please tell me the origin of the following names: > > > > 1. Treme > > 2. Ganier > > 3. Brewer > > > > Thank you > > > > > > > > --------------A9EAE4366D0294F9880A0E47-- > > > > > > ============================== > > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > > > > > > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp