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Home ==> Surnames ==> Way
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| Surname origins | Location Derived from the location where an ancestor originated |
| Meaning |
i+ii)
'Dweller near a road or path' |
| Geographic origins | i)
Mainly Devon but also in Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Kent ii) From the villages of Waye in Devon or Dorset |
| Language | Old English |
| Sources | i)
Cottle, Basil, The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames (London:
Penguin UK, 1967) ii) Reaney & Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958) |
| My
line of the Way family can be traced back to Henry and Joan Way who
lived in the Devon village of Poughill around the middle of the 18th
century. A line of the family - agricultural labourers - moved to
Thorverton
where John Way married Ann Middleton in 1802. Their granddaughter Mary Way - my great great grandmother - was born in 1837 in the neighbouring hamlet of Raddon. After working locally and in nearby Exeter as a servant she moved to London around the middle of the century where in 1866 she married William Clark in Lambeth. They lived in Lambeth and Southwark and had 5 (known) children. |
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