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  Patey Coat of Arms / Patey Family CrestThis surname of PATEY was of French origin, an occupational name meaning 'one who sold meat or fish pies'. The name was brought into England in the wake of the Norman Conquest of 1066. It was also a baptismal name 'the son of Patrick'. The names introduced into Britain by the Normans during the Invasion of 1066 were of three kinds. There were names of Norse origin which their ancestors had carried into Normandy; names of Germanic origin which the Frankish conquerors had brought across the Rhine and which had ousted the old Celtic and Latin names from France, and Biblical names and names of Latin and Greek saints. These names they retained even after the customs and language of the natives of Northern France had been adopted by them. After the Norman Conquest not only Normans, but Frenchmen and Bretons from other parts of France settled in England, and quite a few found their way north into Scotland. Early records of the name mention John Pati, who was documented in Lincolnshire in the year 1273, and Hugh Paty appears in Nottingham at the same time. Robert Patty of County Somerset, was recorded during the reign of Edward III (1327-1377) and Patie Grannie appears in Yorkshire in 1379. Robert Patye registered at Oxford University in the year 1581, and John, son of Humphrey Paty was baptised at St. James's, Clerkenwell, London in the year 1706. 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 the main 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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