How did the Maxey family name originate?
In England by the turn of the previous millennium few people were known by anything more than their first name. To people living in an ajoining village a person residing in Maxey would be known as John of Maxey, i.e. he was from the location of Maxey. If only one person was called John there were no problems. A dramatic increase in the population of England around AD 1000 saw more people sharing a name. Soon it became imperative to find ways to differentiate between several folk called John. Within villages this was accomplished by the naming convention from occupation – thus second names emerged like Cooper, Smith, Archer, Fletcher, etc. Others were named for the location in which they lived – meadow, field, hill, etc. Further afield, our eponymous hero, John of Maxey, eventually lost the ‘of’ element in his name and became plain John Maxey.
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