The penfold Surname
penfold Name Meaning and History
English (mainly Sussex and Kent): from Middle English
punfold ‘pound’, Old English pundfald, applied as a
topographic name for someone who lived by a pound for stray animals or
a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of such a pound;
alternatively it may have been a habitational name from a minor place
named with this word such as Poundfield in East Sussex.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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