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TREFFRYE, TREVRY. From Trefry in Lanhydrock; from tre-fry, the dwelling on a hill (fry, a nose, then a hill; vrè, a hill, mountain). From this name we have, by corruption, Turffrey, Trefay, Trefey, Treffey, Renfree, Renfrey, Renfry, Renphry, Remfry, Remfrey, Remphry, and Refry.

TREFUSIS. From Trefusis in Mylor or Milor; from tre-fus-es, tre-foz-es, the walled or intrenched dwelling. Tonkin says his family, imagining themselves to be of French extraction, gave for their arms, in allusion to their name, Argent, a chevron, between three fusees, or harrow-spindles, Sable.

TREGADILLOCK. A probable corruption of Trevadlock, q. v. The family is now merged in the female branch. Some say "Tregadillock, alias Trevadillock."

TREGAGA, or TRESAGA. Hals says this family was probably named from Tregaga or Tregage in Ruan Lanyhorne. There is a place called Tresuggan in St. Columb Major; perhaps from tre-sugga, the moist or boggy dwelling. But see Treago.

TREGAGLE, TREGEAGLE, TREGALE. From Tregagle in the parish of St. Probus; from tre-gagle, -geagle, the dirty town or dwelling. The Tregagle family of Trevorder in St. Breock is extinct. To this family belonged John Tregagle, an arbitrary magistrate and local tyrant of the days of the Stuarts, whose ghost still haunts the wilds of Cornwall. "One of this family having become unpopular," says D. Gilbert, "the traditions respecting a mythological personage have been applied to him. The object of these tales of unknown antiquity was, like Orestes, continually pursued by an avenging being, from whom he could find refuge only from time to time by flying to the