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Offline Whipby

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Re: Help with surname
« Reply #9 on: Friday 10 May 13 21:26 BST (UK) »
In my junior school there was a teacher called Miss Pearcy.  She pronounced it Pee - er - see, so it may be an alternative spelling to Piercy.

Just a thought  :)
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Re: Help with surname
« Reply #10 on: Friday 10 May 13 22:18 BST (UK) »
My instinctive response was Pearcy.

Jen :)
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ESS: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
STS: White
SRY: Knight
DUR: Smith Littlefair
HAM: Williams Grose Lush Venson
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