583 Global Pacey Family Members

Pacey Family History

This interesting name, with variant spellings Passy, Passie, Peacey, Pacey, Piosey etc., is of French locational origin from any of the variants places so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Paccius, plus the locational suffix "acum", a settlement, for example Pacy-sur-eure in Normandy". The surname first appears on record in England in the mid 12th Century, (see below). Other early recordings include: Robert de Pacy, "The Curia Regis Rolls of Warwickshire", (1214); Hugo Pacy, "The Hundred Rolls of Nottinghamshire", (1273); Hugo Pacy, The Hundred Rolls of Nottinghamshire" (1273), and Robert de Pascy, "The Lincolnshire Hundred Rolls", (1273).