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Penuel (F)>

Penuel (female)

Synonym(s):Penelope (F)
Pet Name(s):Penny (F)
Can be spelt:Pennel (F) Penual (F) Penwell (F)
Masculine form:Penuel (M)
   
Source(s): "Scottish Forenames" - Donald Whyte, FGH, FSG
Personal communications [DO'R, IL, GB, GD2, HM2, JC4and others]
Notes:

English and Scottish from Hebrew "God's face"; OT 1 Chronicles 4:4 & 8:25. The Biblical references are only to the male name - with earlier references to a place - but in Scotland it is more usually a female name.  Alternative spellings are Penual, Penwell and Pennel.

A correspondent [HM2] notes that Penuel was common amongst tin miners from Cornwall and Devon in south-west England who emigrated to Canada - all male.

A private correspondent [IL] has sent the following:

"One of my g-g-grandmothers, Penuel Meston, was born in Banchory-Ternan in Kincardineshire. I came across a source which said that this unusual forename, which could be male or female, was usually associated with Ogilvie or Grant (and possibly McKenzie). My Penuel grandmother, when I eventually located her, turned out to be an Ogilvie. Incidentally, she was on several records as Penelope - presumably the recorders thought Penuel was an shortened version."

Another correspondent [DO'R] records Penuel Allanach married in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in 1838, who had been christened Penelope, and with all later records having the forename Penelope.

A correspondent [GD2] points out that Penny could equally be a pet name for Penuel as for Penelope.

GB notes that there is a Monumental Inscription for Penuel Petrie or Hay [c.1860 - 1935] in Essil Old Kirk burial ground in the Parish of Speymouth, Moray, Scotland, the alternative surnames indicating that she was a wife.