Last name: PENFOLD
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PENFOLD : This last name is indexed 34,596 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
PENFOLD : English (Sussex Surrey and Kent): from Middle English pin-fold pen-fold pun(d)-fold ‘animal pound’ applied as a topographic name for someone who lived by a pound for stray animals or most likely a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of such a pound. Compare Pinder.
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