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I heard from an English friend that many surnames from Cornwall (Southwestern region of Great Britain) begin with "Pol." The town of Poling in West Sussex, England looks like it's in a good location to have once been Cornish long ago. Cornwall has a separate ethnic identity as one of the originally Celtic nations along with Scotland, Ireland & Wales; the English, of course come from the Germanic Anglo-Saxons.
It intrigues me that Thomas Poland 1590 left England for Massachusetts with the Puritans in opposition to the Anglican church. The Cornish had a number of brutally violent clashes with the Anglicans over the Book of Common Prayer starting only 40 years before Thomas was born.
Is there any support for the possibility that the Polings could be originally Cornish rather than English?
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