BOUNDY. See Bonady.
BOWDEN. See Bawden.
BOWHAY, BOHAY. From bo-hay, the enclosed dwelling. Cf. the local names Bowijack, Bowithick, and Bowjheer.
BRABYN. From bray-bigham, the little hill. There is a place called Brabins in Lanreath.
BRAIMER, BRAMER. From bray-mêr, the great hill.
BRANNELL. From the manor of Brannel (St. Stephen's) in Powder, which Tonkin considers to be the Bernel of Domesday. Whitaker says "the name Bernel, Beranel, Brannel speaks its royal relationship at once; brenhin or brennin in Welsh being a king; brennyn, brein, brenn in Cornish royal; Bran being the Welsh name for the famous Brenhind, and consequently brennol in Cornish signifying kingly or royal." The name however may be the same with the O. G. name Bernal.
BRAY, BREE. Some families of this name are from an estate in the parish of St. Just, near Penzance. Hals says, "Bray have name and origin to an old family of gentlemen surnamed De Bray, who held in this place two parts of a knight's fee of land, 3 Henry IV. I take the Lord Bray of Hampshire to be descended from this family." Pryce gives Bray, Brê, Brea, the hill; nom. fam.; and De Braye and Bree are doubtless the same name. Bray is the appellation of places in Alternun and Morval; and there is Brea in Illogan, and Bray's Tenement in Landulph.
BREEN. From bryn, a hill. Preen may be the same name.
BRENDON, BRENTON. From an estate in St.
