Tregenna
Tregenna is a surname of Cornish origin. Recorded variations include Treganna, Tregona, Tregannah, Tregunna, Tregensoe, Tregensowe, Tregenza, and Tregenzo. The name is believed to have originated in the phrase tre-cenue (also tre-gonyow or tre-kensa), meaning the first or foremost farm or homestead on the downs. Examples from the church registers of Cornwall date to at least as early as 1547.[1]
The name Tregenna may refer specifically to:
- Tregenna Castle, an 18th-century castle in St Ives, Cornwall
- Catherine Tregenna, a Welsh playwright, television scriptwriter and actress
- SS Tregenna, a steamship launched in 1919 and sunk in 1940
- Canton, Cardiff, an inner-city district and community in the west of Cardiff, Wales, known in Welsh as Treganna
- "Tregenna Afternoons", a song by English musician Anthony Phillips, recorded in 1973 and released in 2004 on Archive Collection Volume II
See also
- Cornish surnames
- Tregenza (disambiguation)
References
- ↑ "Last Name: Tregenna". The Internet Surname Database. Name Origin Research. Retrieved December 4, 2011.
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