15 Old-Timey Nam for 'Gay'

Contents:

• GAY
• GAY SURNAME MEANG, HISTORY & ORIG
• GAY HISTORY, FAY CRT & COATS OF ARMS
• NAM THAT MEAN GAY
• LAST NAME GAY
• GAY LAST NAME POPULARY, MEANG AND ORIG

GAY

The send possible orig is lotnal, where the surname riv om any of the plac Normandy lled "Gaye", such as that La Manche, where the placename riv om an early owner bearg a Germanic personal name begng" Wai" or "Gai". The first rerd spellg of the fay name is shown to be that of Osward le Gay, which was dated 1176, the "Surrey Pipe Rolls", durg the reign of Kg Henry 11, known as "The Builr of Church", 1154 - 1189.

The olr meang of Gay om the Old French gai, meang “light-head” or “joyful, ” which beme first a nickname and then a surname. The surname Gay has French origs and France has the largt numbers of those wh the name Gay today, timated to be around 20-25, 000. Proment French Gays have been Jean Baptiste Gay, a statman at the time of the Bourbon rtoratn, and Joseph Gay-Lsac, a chemist who lived at the same time and was bt known for his work on gas.

GAY SURNAME MEANG, HISTORY & ORIG

This tate was subsequently hered by Richard Gay, a Baptist Mister and the iend the 1660’s of the John Bunyan of Pilgrim’s Progrs fame. There were Gay stone masons Bath the 1700’s; while Robert Gay, later the MP for Bath, went to London where he ma a name for himself as a surgeon.

GAY HISTORY, FAY CRT & COATS OF ARMS

The Gay name had also appeared Bristol the 17th century where Anthony Gay who died 1683 was a merchant, workg wh fay members that were based Barnstaple Devon. A Gay fay flourished north Oxfordshire the 12th century and clud Robert Gay who found a Cistercian abbey at Otley 1137.

William Gray was the first of the Gays of Alborough New Hall Norfolk the early 1600’s; William Gay was MP for Ipswich 1621; and Dr. It ranked number two terms of the number of Gays Ameri 1840, number one 1880, and has held that posn sce that time.

NAM THAT MEAN GAY

Beth Gay has traced the le of Simon Gay om North Carola who was livg Lowns, Geia 1830 her 1993 book Dcendants of Simon Gay. The soul sger Marv Gaye (murred by his father Marv Gay) and the sprter Tyson Gay both hailed om Kentucky.

LAST NAME GAY

William Gay om Devon, a rpenter on the Medway, had arrived Hobart 1836 where he stayed, married, and raised a fay.

The fact that Gays also appear numbers the adjacent southwt unti of Dorset and Hampshire is unsurprisg and merely rerc the imprsn that this large and rather diffed clter of southwt English Gays has rather a long history this regn. There is also some radiatn om Glouctershire to the adjacent Welsh unty of Monmouth, and an pennt clter of Gays the wternmost astal Welsh unty of Pembroke. Gays were an old fay who had settled Devon when Gilbert le Gay through marriage me to posssn of the manor of Goldsworthy Parkham.

GAY LAST NAME POPULARY, MEANG AND ORIG

The rerds of the fay have not been prerved, but at some time early the 17th century there was at Frtelstock one John Gay, whose send son William was the father of the poet. The youngt child was John Gay the poet who was baptized at the Old Church Barnstaple on September 16th, 1685. She and her siblgs and maternal parent have anctors relatg to Aldborough Hall, Norfolk and I often wonr why there is one person wh the surname of Gray where his parents and siblgs have the surname of Gay.

It was Jonathan Gay who had settled there after he served the Revolutnary War and was given 234 acr for his service.