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Buggy Family History

This interesting and unusual surname is of English origin and has two possible sources. Firstly, it may be from the Old Norse byname "Buggi" meaning a robust man. It may also derive from the Middle English "bugge" or "bugg" a hobgoblin, bogy or scarecrow and would have originated as a nickname. The surname is first recorded in the mid 13th Century, (see below). One, Thomas Buggy, is noted in the Subsidy Rolls of Worcestershire (1275), and John Bogi appears in the Subsidy Rolls of Sussex (1327). In the modern idiom the surname has many spelling variations including Buggay, Budgey etc.. Early recordings of the surname from London church registers include; Tomazin Buggay, who married Thomas Symon, on November 13th 1541, at St...