from bather, bathor, a coiner, banker, exchanger of money; from bâth, a coin.
BATTEN, BATTIN, BATTING. From Battin or Batten, an estate in the parish of North Hill; from pedn, bedn, a hill, head.
BAUDEN, BAWDEN. Pryce renders Bowden, Bawden, a sorry fellow, bad man, nasty place. There is a place called Bawden in Duloe; and there is Bawdens in Gwennap. Vawden, Voaden, and sometimes Bowden and Boaden, may be the same name.
BAWDRY. From bow-dry, the bad or nasty dwelling; but the last syllable may be from dreath, draith, gravel, sand. Baudree was the name of a French Protestant family, and would seem to be from Baldric.
BEANBULK. From pen-buch, the cow's head (probably local).
BEDACK or BESSAKE. From the manor of Bedocke or Bessake in Ladoch; from bez-ack, the birch-tree place (bedho, bezo, a birch-tree).
BEDDOE, BEDDOW. This name seems to be from Bezo, anc. Bedou, in St. Peran Arwithel; from bedho, bezo, a birch-tree. Cf. the Welsh name Beddoes, from bedw, a birch-tree.
BEHANNA, BEHENNA. See Bohenna.
BELITHO. See Bolitho.
BEMROSE. Another orthography of Penrose, q.v.
BENALECK, BENALLACK, BENALLICK, BENELLICK, BENNALACK, BENNELLICK, BENNALLACK, BONALLECK (U. S. Bennellick). From Benalleck, in Constantine or Constenton, formerly Banathlek, Bennathlick; from benathal-ick, a place of broom.
