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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 were agricultural labourers connected with
the Devon village of Thorverton for at least the first half of the
19th century and earlier to Poughill in the same county. John Way and Ann Middleton married in Thorverton 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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| Links | Way
message board
on Genealogy.com Way message board on Ancestry.co.uk |
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