Last name: CORNISH

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CORNISH : This last name is indexed 78,745 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CORNISH : English (of Norman origin): habitational name for someone from the county of Cornwall from Middle English Cornish Cornysh formed on the analogy of English which was usually Normanized as Corneys. Not surprisingly the surname is common in adjacent Devon but it is also established as far afield as Suffolk and London.
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