Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.
DEVENISH
There are approximately 268 people named Devenish in the UK. That makes it the 13,453rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 4 are named Devenish.
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The Devenish surname in historical dictionaries
Patronymica Britannica (1860)
DEVENISH. The flimily first appear as gentry in co. Sussex about the year 1399. The name, clearly indicative of a Devonshire origin, is cognate with Kentish, Cornish, &c. The Irish branch, who transferred themselves to the sister island in tlie reign of Henry VIII., have a tradition