PENDAR, PENDER, PENDRE. From Pentre or Pendrea in the parish of Burian; from pen-drea, the head town, or pen-dar, the head of the oak. The Pendars were seated at Trevidden in Burian for upwards of five centuries.
PENDARVES, PENDARVIS. From Pendarves in Camborne; from pen-dar-vêz, the head of the oak-field.
PENDEEN, PENDENE. From Pendeen in St. Just; which Pryce renders "head man's place." It is more probably from pen-den, -din, the head of the hill.
PENDENNIS. From the castle of Pendenis or Pendunes (ancient name of St. Ives); from pen-dinaz, -dinas, the peninsula or fortified headland; or, according to Camden, the head fort, fortress, or fortified place.
PENDER, PENDRE. See Pendar.
PENDERAY, PENDRY. From root of Pendered, q. v.
PENDERED, PENDRED. From pen-draith, the head of the sands (draith, gravel, sand, the sandy shore covered at high water). But see Pendar.
PENDRY. See Penderay.
PENELIGAN. See Penhaligon.
PENESTONE, PENEYSTONE. See Penystone.
PENFERN. From Penwarne, the appellation of several places in Cornwall; from pen-warne, -wern, -gwern, the head of the alder-trees; or it may be the same with Penfoune, q. v. The manor of Kennal in Stithians belonged to Matthew Penfern, temp. Edw. II.
PENFOUND. This family, who are traced eight generations beyond 1620, derived their name from the estate of Penfound in Poundstock. "They ruined themselves by their adherence to the Stuarts;" and Ambrose Penfound,G 2
