Släkthistoria för Penter
Penter Vad efternamn betyder
variant of Painter. John Penter in Crowan 1524 in Cornwall Subsidies is almost certainly identical with John Paynter in Crowan 1522 in Cornwall Military Survey .rarely if ever from one of several places in Cornwall named Pentire derived from Middle Cornish *pen-tyr ‘headland’ (pen ‘head top end; promontory’ tyr ‘land’). This place-name probably did give rise to an occasional surname such as that of Thomas Pentyre 1543 in Cornwall Subsidies who lived in Pentire Saint Eval parish. Pronunciation of this surname (with stress on the second syllable as in the place-name) could have been altered to Penter (with stress on the first syllable) influenced perhaps by Penter/Painter in (i) but evidence is lacking. Pentyr(e) in the following examples is usually an alternative spelling of Penter or Painter.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
