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SKYBURIOW. From skiberio, skiberiowe, the barns. Hence Skiberion in Mawgan, and the surname Scaberius.

SOADY, SODDY. From sog-, sug-ty, the moist or wet abode.

SODEN, SOWDEN. From sog-den, the moist or wet hill. Lower refers Soden to Sudden, which he says is a known corruption of Southdean, through Soudean.

SONDRY. See Saundry.

SOOR. From sair, a sawyer; whence the word sair-pren, a woodman, carpenter.

SOWDEN. See Soden.

SPARNON, SPERNON. From spernan, a thorn. "The family became extinct on the death of a gentleman in the medical profession at Lostwithiel; and the property was sold about fifty years ago." (D. Gilbert, 1838.)

SPERNON. See Sparnon.

SPERRACK. This name may be from spernan, a thorn. Tonkin says Trigantan (in Creed) belongs to the family of Sperrack; and there is a place called Sparnock in Kea.

SPETTIGUE. This is said to be an old Cornish family; but it is doubted if the Spettigues were not originally from another part of England. Lower says it is "a Cornish local name, place unknown." The last part of the name may be the same with that in Killigrew and Pettigrew, q.v.

SPOUR, SPOURE. See Spur.

SPRY. Burke says that this family, whose name he writes var. De Spre, De Spray, De Sprey, Spreye, Sprie, Sprye, Spry, Spray, and Sprey, was at a very early period seated in co. Devon, where several places bear the designation in its more ancient spelling, as Spreyton, Sprie-

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