Notes relating to the Cornish name of
FAULL / FAUELL / FAUEL / FAUL / FALL /
FAULE / FAWLE / FOALE
There is a FAULL coat of arms listed in "Burkes General Armory". (see below)
It shows "gules on a bend wavy argent, three water bougets sable".
It looks like three black double musical notes (bougets) on a silver background on top of a red background.
"Bouget" is an English Middle Ages term for water carrier.- NB. A Coat of Arms does not belong to a surname – many people of the same surname will often be entitled to completely different coats of arms, and many of that surname wil be entitled to no coat of arms. Coats of arms belong to individuals. For any person to have a right to a coat of arms they must either have had it granted to them or be descended in the legitimate male line from a person to whom arms were granted to confirmed in the past. The College of Arms, London will have the full information on the FAULL Coat of Arms.
A heraldry book indicates that the FAULLs ancestors were those that carried the "water bags" on a yoke which they wore across their shoulders to the soldiers on the battle field.
The Dictionary of Cornish Surnames show FAULL to mean "dweller by a waterfall or slope". In Cornwall this could refer to a dweller by the River Fal.
Theories regarding the first FAULL families include
originally Spanish "de FALLE" and dropped the 'de'
originally Welsh "MacFAULL/McALL" and dropped the "Mac"
in Germany FAUL means "lazy".
A FAULL Coat of Arms
Updated: 25 Nov 1999