Name meaning (surname BAMSEY)

[Zeb]

Hi,

No idea where to post this, trying to locate the meaning of the surname BAMSEY and how it could also have been spelt over time to try and find out the origins.

Many thanks.

[GeoffE]

It seems to be a name almost entirely confined to Devon in 1881

http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/Map2.aspx?name=BAMSEY&year=1998&altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name

[stanmapstone]

Bamsey is concentrated in Devon in the 1881 Census, around Exeter/Tiverton.It is probably an English Locational Name, for a settlement. Old English personal name + sey, meaning an Island or dry ground in a marsh of a man called "Bam"
As an aside there were 452 people caled Bamsey in England & Wales in 2002.

Stan

[Zeb]

Thanks for the replies.

Geoffe the link doesn't work - it redirects me to www.default.aspx

stanmapstone, any idea if the surname exists anywhere else in the world at any other time?

[casram]

The Devon Family History Society has the following:
Issue 46 (Apr 1988)     Bamsey Family, 1702-1929, Devon, Eng.


Devon Family History Society
PO Box 9
Exeter
EX2 6YP


Carolyn

[stanmapstone]

Total number in the 1881 Census were 115
The numbers in Devon Poor Law Unions  were
St Thomas 46
Exeter 15
Tiverton 11
Crediton 3


Stan

[JenB]

Geoffe the link doesn't work - it redirects me to www.default.aspx

Try this link
http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/Surnames.aspx

Jennifer

[casram]

164 in US in 1880 spread through US also 150 in current Canadian phone book mainly in Ontario but also BC, Alberta

Carolyn

[GeoffE]

Thanks for the replies.

Geoffe the link doesn't work - it redirects me to www.default.aspx

OK ... go here and do a Name Search - http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/default.aspx