Pennyfather One-Name Study

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A 'One Name' study into the surname Pennyfather and associated variants.

Some variants of this surname are: Pennefather, Penneyfather, Pennifather and Pennyfeather.

The meaning of the name is: 'penny-father', a miser, pinch-pennie, scrape-good and niggard.

An old couplet says:

The liberal doth spend his pelfe,

The pennyfather wastes himself.

The appearances of the variants in the 1881 census for England and Wales are:

Pennyfather = 87

Pennefather = 35

Pennyfeather = 17

Pennifather = 13

Pennifer = 13

Pennefether = 2

Pennyferther = 1

Pennyfether = 1

Penniefother = 1

The Pennyfather One Name Study website contains the following:

a) family trees of researchers

b) complete transcription of the births, marriages and deaths index for England and Wales from 1837-2005

c) parish records

http://www.pennyfather.com/index.html

For further information, contact:

Mr Trevor Penfold
69 Stone Park Avenue,
Beckenham,
Kent
BR3 3LU
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail:

This page last updated 25 February 2008.