I'm trying to figure out the proper way to translate "Town's End" (a play on my last name of "Townsend", like someone living at the end of town).
I've found the word for "town", which is: 町
I think the appropriate match for end would be 端, but I'm not sure.
But would it need の in between? Such as 端の町? Would that be correct? Is 端 the correct word for what I want to convey?
「[端]{はし}の[町]{まち}」 means "a town at the end (of something)", which is probably not what you are looking for.
「町の端」 means "one end of a town", which is the meaning I suppose you would want.
The 「の」 does not look good in a name, so you might just drop it and use a 「町端」, which might actually exist as a family name. It would probably be read まちはた instead of まちはし, though.
(In reality, however, your last name is either タウンゼンド or タウンゼント in Japanese.)
非回答者 answer is very good, but I would just like to add 2 points:
If using katakana please use タウンゼンド. Reading "bed" written as "ベット" makes me cringe(Double d is not natural in Japanese but it still can be represented and is not a Japanese word anyways).
I will second "町の端" with "の" inside. "の" does look strange in a name, but otherwise I think it is appropriate. "の" is the best way to show posession.
