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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English or Scottish : unexplained. Compare Peavy.
  • Edward Peavey is mentioned in the records of Portsmouth, NH, in 1691, as well as Abell, Nathaniel, Joseph, William, and Peter Peavey (probably his sons).

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