Patronymica Cornu-Britannica/V

VALLACK. From vallack, vallick, fenced; from val, gual, a wall or fence. Hence we may have the surname Wedlock.

VARFULL. From Varfell in Ludgvan; from veor-val, -gual, the great wall or fence; or var-val, upon or above the fence.

VARTHA. Perhaps from Higher or Lower Wartha; from wartha, higher.

VASNOON. From vês-nohan, the meadow for oxen.

VAUSE. See Vose.

VAWDEN. See Bawden.

VEAB. From St. Veep (found written Weep and Wepe) in West hundred; from root of Mabe, q. v.

VEAR. As a Cornish name, perhaps from vear, veor, great.

​VEASE. From vêz, mêz, mêys, an open field.

VEEN. See Vian.

VELLACOT. From vellan-coit, the mill by the wood.

VELLENOWETH, FELLENOWETH. From vellan-noweth, the new mill. Hence, by contraction, the name Velloweth.

VELLENZER. From vellyn-nance, the mill valley.

VELLHUISH. See Melhuish.

VELLNOWARTH, VELNOWARTH. From vellan-varth, the high or highest mill.

VELLOWETH. See Vellenoweth.

VENARD. From win-ard, the high marsh.

VENN. From Venn, name of places in Cardinham, Laneast, and Quethiock; from vean, little; fen, fedn, an end, also a head; or guen, a plain, down.

VENTOM, VENTON. See Fenton.

VERMAN. From veor-mân, the great stone.

VESPER. See Vosper.

VIAN, VEEN. From vean, little; or from some local name compounded thereof: as Porth-Vyan, the little gate, cove, creek, or entrance. But Vian, Veen might also be from vyin, vyyn, pl. of maen, a stone; whence Carvynick, "the stony town," in Gorran.

VICE. See Vose.

VIDDICKS. See Biddick.

VIETH. From vy-etha, the great stream.

VIGO, VIGOE. From wick, a village. There is a place named Bosvigo in Kenwyn.

VINCE. From vince, a spring. There is Trevince in Gwennap. Vince would also corrupt from Vincent.

VINGOE. From win-go, the little marsh.

​VINICOMBE. From vian-coomb, the little valley; or win-coomb, the valley in the marsh.

VINTER. See Wintour.

VINTON. Another orthography of Venton; or from phin-todn, the little green lay or meadow.

VISACK, VISICK. See Physick.

VISSAN. See Trevisa.

VIUIAN, VIVEN, VIVIN. See Vyvian.

VOADEN. See Bawden.

VOASE, VOAZ, VOCE, VOICE. See Vose.

VODDEN, VODDON. From mod-den, the hill place, or the dwelling on the hill; or perhaps rather from vidhin, bidhin, vidn, vethan, a meadow. There is a mine called Tolvadden.

VOGAN. See Boggan.

VOSE. From vose, a ditch, intrenchment, wall, fortification; vôz, vôza, foza, id.; boza, bose, an intrenchment; fôz, fôs, a wall; from L. fossa, a ditch, moat, trench. Hence probably the names Boas, Boase, Boaz, Bice, Fice, Fos, Foss, Moase, Moysey(?), Vause, Vice, Voase, Voaz, Voce, Voice, Vos, Voss, Vossa, Voyce, Voysey(?).

VOSPER, VESPER, BOSPER. Hals writes the name also Uspar, Vospar, and Vospur, and says vosper or vospur in British-Cornish signifies "a pure or immaculate maid or virgin"! The name may translate the bare dwelling (vos-ber); or the great dwelling (bos-ver). There is a place called Trevosper near Launceston.

VOSS, VOSSA, VOYCE, VOYSEY. See Vose.

VOWELL. As a Cornish name, perhaps from moel, bald, bare. Cf. the Welsh Voel; from moel, a conical hill, literally bare, bald.

​VYVIAN, VYVYAN. "The Vyvians of Truro are derived by certain genealogists from one Vivianus Annius, a Roman general, son-in-law of Domitius Carbulo." (Quar. Rev., c. 11, p. 304.) Others consider the name to be from Cornish vyvyan, to flee. Polwhele, under chuyvyan, "to escape, to fly," says, "Hence Vyvian, flying on a white horse from Lyonesse when it was inundated, is said to have derived his name. He was then governor of Lyonesse. The family of Vyvian gives a lion for its arms, and a white horse, ready caparisoned, for its crest, in memory of that incident." The name has also been derived from vy-vian, the small water. (See Trevivion.) Vyvyan, Viuian, Vivin, Viven, are different orthographies of the name.