GOVERIGON. See Gauerigan.
GOVER. From gover (go-ver), the brook or spring of water; (W. gofer, a rivulet); hence perhaps Cover.
GOYNE, GOYNS, GOYNES. From root of Gunn, q. v. There is Goynglaze in St. Agnes.
GREW. From grew, a crane. Cf. Killigrew, Pettigrew.
GRILLS, GRYLLS. A friend renders this surname a grasshopper or cricket (grillus, gryllus, a cricket; in later times perhaps used to designate a locust). But the name is rather from the manor of Grylls or Garles, in Lesneweth, near the rocks called the Grylls or Garles. Hence the surname Gryllo.
GROWDEN, GROWDON. From grou-den, the hill of sand or gravel; or crou-den, the hill of the cross.
GRUNDRY. See Gundry.
GRYLLO. See Grills.
GUAVAS, GUAVIS. See Gwavis.
GUMB, GUM, GUMMOE, GUMMOW. Gumb is from guimp, gump, down hill (in W. ar guympo). There is a place called Gump in St. Agnes; and the village of Jump in Roborough hundred, co. Devon. Cf. the names Kumpe, Gommo.
GUNDRY, GRUNDRY. From gûn-dre, the town on the down or plain; or gûn-draith, the down by the seashore. There is in Mawgan in Meneage a place called Gwandray. These names may however be the same as Gundred (whence St. Gundred's Well in Roche), a German name; from gund-draut, faithful and beloved woman.
GUNN. As a Cornish name, from gûn, goon, a down or common, a plain.
