The surname of PACEY was a baptismal name 'the son of Pece' a great Yorkshire surname, given to one born on Easter day. The name is also very familiar to Orkney where it is found as Pace and Paise. Early records of the name mention John Pese, 1272 County Bedfordshire. The 14th century spelling of the name which was PASCE has given rise the the Pace eggs, which we have to this day. Early records of the name mention John Pais who appears in 1219 in County Liecestershire, and Ralph Pays was documented in 1275 in County Norfolk. Willelmus Pece who was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. James Pase witnessed a disposition of a land in Wasbister in the parish of Holme in 1483. Magnus Paise owned a tenement in Kirkwall in the year 1573. John Peace married Margary Roberts in London in 1566. Baptised. John Peace at St. Jame's, Clerkenwell, London in the year 1649. William Peace published his 'Descriptive and Historic Handbook to the Orkney Islands' in the year 1862. The origin of badges and emblems, are traced to the earliest times, although, Heraldry, in fact, cannot be traced later than the 12th century, or at furthest the 11th century. At first armorial bearings were probably like surnames and assumed by each warrior at his free will and pleasure, his object being to distinguish himself from others. It has long been a matter of doubt when bearing Coats of Arms first became hereditary. It is known that in the reign of Henry V (1413-1422), a proclamation was issued, prohibiting the use of heraldic ensigns to all who could not show an original and valid right, except those 'who had borne arms at Agincourt'. The College of Arms (founded in 1483) is the Royal corporation of heralds who record proved pedigrees and grant armorial bearings. Most of the European surnames were formed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The process had started somewhat earlier and had continued in some places into the 19th century, but the norm is that in the tenth and eleventh centuries people did not have surnames, whereas by the fifteenth century most of the population had acquired a second name. |
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