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JosiahS
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Hello there!
I've just been researching in Somerset for the first time and I have found an unsual forename in the family.
It is a woman's name and appears as : Sexey, Sexe, and Sexa in various places.
Is this a regional name? - there seem to be a lot of them in the Cheddar Registers. Does anyone know the origins of the name?
I have to admit that I did smile when I found one marriage in the tree for a Sexey Gallop....
Many thanks for your help
Ashley
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DU: Jones, Miller, Laverick, Orwin, Burn, Finlay, Robson, Robinson, Jobling, Fenwick, Spoor, Saunders, Billingsley, Bainbridge, Chilton NB: Pickard, Gilchrist, Curry, Heron, Thompson, Bell, Henderson, Aynsley, Crumbie CU: Bell, Armstrong, Parker SY: Saunders, Bartlett, Ellis Buckinghamshire: Saunders N Yorks: Miller (Swaledale), Raw ALL CENSUS INFORMATION CONTAINED IN POSTINGS IS CROWN COPYRIGHT FROM www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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AMBLY
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Hi Ashley
Took a deep breath  and googled! Wading thru the inevitable, came across this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexey%27s_School
"Sexey's School ....a state boarding school in Bruton, Somerset..........named after Hugh Sexey who, in 1599, was appointed as a Royal auditor to Elizabeth I and later James I."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E_Sexey
SO wonder if it was a Surname, and then sometimes given as first name to descendants? Or in honour of Hugh?
I wonder it the name origins might be Germanic or Greek, Latin......seems to tend toward that?
Cheers
AMBLY
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JosiahS
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Thanks to both of you for your help.
I'm interested by the Sexagesima which is a misspelling of the latin for sixth. Could Sexe be a name given to a 6th child (or daughter) in the same was as Septimus was originally given to a male 7th child?
Did you notice any geographical spread in the BMD? Most of my research has been in the North East and I have never come across it there. If it is local to Somerset then maybe the school founder is the explanation??
Cheers
Ashley
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DU: Jones, Miller, Laverick, Orwin, Burn, Finlay, Robson, Robinson, Jobling, Fenwick, Spoor, Saunders, Billingsley, Bainbridge, Chilton NB: Pickard, Gilchrist, Curry, Heron, Thompson, Bell, Henderson, Aynsley, Crumbie CU: Bell, Armstrong, Parker SY: Saunders, Bartlett, Ellis Buckinghamshire: Saunders N Yorks: Miller (Swaledale), Raw ALL CENSUS INFORMATION CONTAINED IN POSTINGS IS CROWN COPYRIGHT FROM www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Elizabeth Revel
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Sexagesima is the name of a day in the church calendar. Perhaps the child was born on that day.
Beth
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Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Lancashire and Cheshire: Harding, Turner, Gandy, Rigby, Bancroft, Moorcroft, Wright Wiltshire: Webb, Hayter, Mussell, Curtice, Sheppard Hampshire: Harper, Rawlings Ireland: Revels, Qua, Alexander, Clegg Bucks, Northants, Derby, Leicester and Cheshire: Spokes, Glover, Sturgess, Attewell, Whiting, Lester, Hall |
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stanmapstone
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My answers only refer to England and Wales
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The name's popularity in Somerset will probably come from Hugh Sexey who from humble beginnings as a stable-boy in Bruton eventually rose to be one of the auditors to Queen Elizabeth I. He lavished his wealth on his home town.
Sexey's School - A Brief History see http://www.sexeys.somerset.sch.uk/index.php?main=history
Stan
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JosiahS
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Many thanks for the further information on Mr Sexey.
I'm not looking for anyone in particular though Sexey Gallop was a widow when she married John Clarke in Cheddar in 1767 and I could find no other Gallop marriages in that parish so if anyone can locate it for me I'd be grateful.
Really I was just trying to find the origins of what is clearly a very unusual name.
Ashley
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DU: Jones, Miller, Laverick, Orwin, Burn, Finlay, Robson, Robinson, Jobling, Fenwick, Spoor, Saunders, Billingsley, Bainbridge, Chilton NB: Pickard, Gilchrist, Curry, Heron, Thompson, Bell, Henderson, Aynsley, Crumbie CU: Bell, Armstrong, Parker SY: Saunders, Bartlett, Ellis Buckinghamshire: Saunders N Yorks: Miller (Swaledale), Raw ALL CENSUS INFORMATION CONTAINED IN POSTINGS IS CROWN COPYRIGHT FROM www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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I have come across someone with the surname Sexey in the Derbyshire area - so its in the East Midlands too.
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Cheshire - TAYLOR, HEAPY, KNOWLES, HAMPSON, CLAYTON, STONIER, PRITCHARD, NADIN, GALLIMORE
Staffs - HEAPY
Devon - CLIFT, VITTERY, TRIST, MOLLOY, COBLEY, LEAR
Devon & Cornwall - CLIFT, LARK
Somerset -Frome -HEAPY
Derbys/Notts- COCKAYNE, PHEASEY, KNOWLES
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