Trelawney--Where did I hear that name before

[snazzzybird]

No: HPFGUIDX 44326


"Suzanne Chiles" <suzchiles at p...> wrote:
> > For a long time, I have tried to remember where I had heard the 
> name
> > "Trelawney" before. Then, just a few days ago, while reading a 
> post about
> > Madame Trelawney, I remembered where I had first encountered the 
> name.
> > 
> > It's from an 100-year old romantic comedy play by Arthur Pinero 
> entitled
> > "Trelawney of the Wells." 
> 
Then "Caius Marcius" <coriolan_cmc at h...> wrote:
> Interesting - there's also Squire Trelawney from Stevenson's 
> Treasure Island

Now me:

I found the name Trelawney very familiar when I first encountered the 
radiant Sibyll, because I'm a great fan of Daphne DuMaurier's 
writings.  Characters named Trelawney feature in several of her books 
that take place on the Cornish Tin Coast.  DuMaurier writes that 
surnames beginning with "Tre" (as well as "Pol" and "Pen") are 
plentiful in Cornwall -- or at least, they were in the times she 
wrote about.

That made me wonder about Sibyll, too.  Is she meant to be of Cornish 
descent?  --Or is JKR a DuMaurier fan too?

Just wondering,

snazzzybird, who likes "The King's General" even better 
than "Rebecca" -- which is really saying something.