Povall Family History
Povall Name Meaning
variant of Pover (see Povey ) with excrescent -ll. from an unidentified French place called Poville. Wido de Poville held a third of a fee of Ranulf II of Chester in 1144; Hugo de Poville held half a fee in Yorks of William de Percy in 1166; Serlo de Poville witnessed grants in York (about 1180-1200) and in 1209 his widow had a plea of dower in Farnley (WR Yorks); see
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016