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.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


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