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  Baty Coat of Arms / Baty Family CrestThe surname of BATY was a baptismal name - the son of Bartholomew. As a given name in Christian Europe, this name derives its popularity from the apostle St. Bartholomew, the patron saint of tanners, vintners and butlers, about whom virtually nothing is known. A favourite Yorkshire font name. Early records of the name mention Dyota Batty who was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. Johannes Batty, ibid. Peter Pynder and Agnes Battye were married in London in 1570. John Battye of the County of Yorkshire was registered at Oxford University in 1603. Richard Batty and Betty Gerrard were married at St. George's, Hanover Square, London in 1772. The small villages of Europe, or royal and noble households, even large religious dwellings and monasteries gave rise to many family names, which reflected the occupation or profession of the original bearer of the name. Many factors contributed to the establishment of a surname system. For generations after the Norman Conquest of 1066 a very few dynasts and magnates passed on hereditary surnames, but most of the population, with a wide choice of first-names out of Celtic, Old English, Norman and Latin, avoided ambiguity without the need for a second name. As society became more stabilized, there was property to leave in wills, the towns and villages grew and the labels that had served to distinguish a handful of folk in a friendly village were not adequate for a teeming slum where perhaps most of the householders were engaged in the same monotonous trade, so not even their occupations could distinguish them, and some first names were gaining a tiresome popularity, especially Thomas after 1170. The hereditary principle in surnames gained currency first in the South, and the poorer folk were slower to apply it. By the 14th century however, most of the population had acquired a second name. |
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