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FALMOUTH. From the town of the same name; from Fal-mouth, mouth of the Fal, called the Prince's river.
FAULL. The Cornish form of Paull. There is Trefaul in Lanreath; and Paul, Paull are found as surnames in Cornwall. Hence Faulls.
FAZAN, FAZON. See Pheasant.
FELLENOWETH. See Vellenoweth.
FENTON, VENTON, VENTOM. From fenton, venton, a spring, fountain, well. There is Fenton in Ladock, and there are several names compounded of venton. But the Fentons are not always from Cornwall. There are parishes and places called Fenton (perhaps "the fenny enclosure or town") in cos. Lincoln, Stafford, and York.
FENTONGOLLAN (De). From Fenton-gollan, Venton-gollan, "which," says Hals, "was and is the soke lands of a considerable manor, which heretofore comprehended the whole parishes of St. Michael Penkevil and Merther, except the tenements of Penkevill, Tregothnan, &c. &c., now subdivided into the manors of Tregothnan and Fenton-gollan." The name means the holy well.
FESANT. See Pheasant.
FICE. See Vose.
FIDDIAN. See Mithian.
FIDDICK, FIDICK. See Biddick.
FINTER. See Wintour.
FITHIAN. See Mithian.
FOOT, FOOTE. As a Cornish name, perhaps from
