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Title: Name meaning (surname BAMSEY)
Post by: Zeb on Tuesday 04 March 08 14:19 GMT (UK)
Hi,

No idea where to post this, trying to locate the meaning of the surname BAMSEY and how it could also have been spelt over time to try and find out the origins.

Many thanks.
Title: Re: Name meaning (surname BAMSEY)
Post by: GeoffE on Tuesday 04 March 08 14:42 GMT (UK)
It seems to be a name almost entirely confined to Devon in 1881

http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/Map2.aspx?name=BAMSEY&year=1998&altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name
Title: Re: Name meaning (surname BAMSEY)
Post by: stanmapstone on Tuesday 04 March 08 14:50 GMT (UK)
Bamsey is concentrated in Devon in the 1881 Census, around Exeter/Tiverton.It is probably an English Locational Name, for a settlement. Old English personal name + sey, meaning an Island or dry ground in a marsh of a man called "Bam"
As an aside there were 452 people caled Bamsey in England & Wales in 2002.

Stan
Title: Re: Name meaning (surname BAMSEY)
Post by: Zeb on Tuesday 04 March 08 14:53 GMT (UK)
Thanks for the replies.

Geoffe the link doesn't work - it redirects me to www.default.aspx

stanmapstone, any idea if the surname exists anywhere else in the world at any other time?
Title: Re: Name meaning (surname BAMSEY)
Post by: casram on Tuesday 04 March 08 14:59 GMT (UK)
The Devon Family History Society has the following:
Issue 46 (Apr 1988)     Bamsey Family, 1702-1929, Devon, Eng.


Devon Family History Society
PO Box 9
Exeter
EX2 6YP


Carolyn
Title: Re: Name meaning (surname BAMSEY)
Post by: stanmapstone on Tuesday 04 March 08 15:00 GMT (UK)
Total number in the 1881 Census were 115
The numbers in Devon Poor Law Unions  were
St Thomas 46
Exeter 15
Tiverton 11
Crediton 3


Stan
Title: Re: Name meaning (surname BAMSEY)
Post by: JenB on Tuesday 04 March 08 15:05 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Zeb on Tuesday 04 March 08 14:53 GMT (UK)
Geoffe the link doesn't work - it redirects me to www.default.aspx

Try this link
http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/Surnames.aspx

Jennifer
Title: Re: Name meaning (surname BAMSEY)
Post by: casram on Tuesday 04 March 08 15:09 GMT (UK)
164 in US in 1880 spread through US also 150 in current Canadian phone book mainly in Ontario but also BC, Alberta

Carolyn
Title: Re: Name meaning (surname BAMSEY)
Post by: GeoffE on Tuesday 04 March 08 16:10 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Zeb on Tuesday 04 March 08 14:53 GMT (UK)
Thanks for the replies.

Geoffe the link doesn't work - it redirects me to www.default.aspx

OK ... go here and do a Name Search - http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/default.aspx
Title: Re: Name meaning (surname BAMSEY)
Post by: Maggs154b on Friday 03 June 11 20:52 BST (UK)
Hi, Zeb, I've been trying to establish the origin of 'Bamsey' too (my grandfather was a Bamsey from Devon - he was very tall at 6' 5") and wondered if it orginated in Norway or Denmark.  'Bamse' apparently means 'bear' or 'burly man'.  Best wishes, Maggie.
Title: Re: Name meaning (surname BAMSEY)
Post by: Doug Smith on Friday 16 August 19 06:15 BST (UK)
Hey guys
Stumbled upon this thread after looking through some old pages of the family...seems one of my great great grandfathers was a Bamsey and as far as I can tell also out of Devon. I’m in Queensland Australia 6’ 4” So there you go.