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The massey Surname

massey Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Scottish (of Norman origin) and French: habitational name from any of various places in northern France which get their names from the Gallo-Roman personal name Maccius + the locative suffix -acum.
  2. English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Marcy in La Manche. This surname is preserved in the English place name Stondon Massey.
  3. English: from a pet form of Matthew.
  4. Altered spelling of French Massé (see Masse 4).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The massey name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the massey family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of massey Families in the US in 1920
Number of massey families
 220-437
 74-219		 1-73
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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