Where does the surname "Corner" originate from?
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Corner English: occupational name for a hornblower or worker in horn, from an agent derivative of Old French corne ‘horn’ (see Corne). English: metonymic occupational name for a maker of hand mills, from an agent derivative of Old English cweorn ‘hand mill’ (see Corn 3). English: topographic name for someone who lived on the corner of two streets or tracks, (Middle English corner, from Old French cornier ‘angle’, ‘corner’). Americanized spelling of German Körner (see Koerner) or Swiss Korner. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/fact.aspx?&fid=10&fn=&ln=Corner As I cannot stress often enough though, the only way to really discover your surname origin is to trace BACK from yourself to the ancestor who first held it. that may or may not be possible (noble ancestors poss. commoners zilch) But you still might get ideas or probabilities by going as far as you can.
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