Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.
VENABLES
As described in historical dictionaries
Patronymica Britannica (1860)
VENABLES. Tlie progenitor of the great Cheshire family was a tenant under Hugh Lupus, temp. William I., whom he had probably accompanied to the Conquest of England. Tlie name is local, from Venables, a parish in the arrondissementof Louviers, in Normandy.