Last name: NORTHEY
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NORTHEY : This last name is indexed 11,863 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
NORTHEY : 1: English (Cornwall and Devon): habitational name from Northay in Hawkchurch Devon. The placename derives from Middle English north ‘north northern’ + heie ‘fence enclosure hedge’ (Old English north (ge)hæg).2: English: habitational name perhaps occasionally from a lost place called Northeye in Bexhill Sussex or from Northey Wood in Ugley Essex. The Sussex placename derives from Middle English north ‘north northern’ + ei ‘island’ (Old English north ēg) while the Essex placename has the same etymology as Northay in Hawkchurch (see 1 above).
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