Pewsey

From the unrecorded Old English personal name *Pefi + -s- + īeġ (“island; well-watered land”).

Pewsey (countable and uncountable, plural Pewseys)

1. A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1660). ^[1]
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

• Vale of Pewsey

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Pewsey is the 32533^rd most common surname in England, belonging to 108 individuals.

• Survey of English Place-Names

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Pewsey”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears

• sweepy