Patronymica Cornu-Britannica/Y

by Richard Stephen Charnock

 

Y.

 

YELLAND. See Yolland.

YEO, YOE. According to Lower, the Yeos are an ancient Devonshire family. He seems to suggest that they may have had their name from the river Yeo in that county. D. Gilbert says they were formerly persons of consequence in the North of Cornwall and of Devonshire, and that they bore arms, Argent, a chevron Gules, between three birds. C. S. Gilbert derives the name from Treyeo, near Stratton. There is also Treyew in Kenwyn, which Pryce renders "the above or upper town" (tre-yew, -yuh). Yeo, Yoe may also be Cornish forms of Hugh.

YOE. See Yeo.

YOLLAND, YELLAND. From youl-, jowl-lan, the devil's enclosure; or perhaps rather from yuhal-lan, the high church or enclosure.

YOULDEN. From Youldon, which Pryce translates the devil's hill (joul-den); but qy. from yuhal-don, the high hill.