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Where does the name pavey come from?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Our Pavey surname is an Americanized version of my grandparents last name PaweL (with the last letter being an L with a line through it). My grandparents emigrated from Russia, and I am told that when they arrived at Ellis Island they were told that their last name would be too difficult for Americans to pronounce. For this reason, their last name was changed to Pavey, (possibly because the officer they spoke with misidentified the last letter in their name as a Y). Douglas Pavey dougpavey@Yahoo.com

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16y ago

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