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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English prest ‘priest’ + hay, hey ‘enclosure’; a topographic name for someone who lived by a piece of enclosed church land, or a habitational name from a minor place such as Priesthaywood Farm in Wappenham, Northamptonshire.

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