Duey meaning | Last name Duey origin

Lastname Duey is the variant form of Duff. A historian states that the Earl of Fife's descent from Fife Mac Duff, in the IX century, is unsupported by any evidence. The real descent (he adds) is that given in Douglas's Baronage.

Duey is variant of Duffus. A parish on the coast of Morayshire, Scotland. The name may, however, be a corruption of Dovehouse, like Bacchus from Backhouse, or Malthus from Malthouse. In support of the latter derivation, one may cite the de Duffus, del Duffus, Dufhus, Columbiers, and de Columbariis of the Hundred Rolls Residence near one of the great monastic or manorial pigeon houses of the middle ages would readily confer such a surname.

The surname Duey is the variant form of the Duffey. Probably D'Auffay, a small town in Normandy, on the Dieppe and Rouen railway. In Hundred Rolls Dofi.

Duey is a variant of the Duff. This noble family is derived from Fife Mac-Duff, who was a man of considerable wealth and power in Scotland temp. king Kenneth II., and gave that prince great assistance in his wars with the Picts about the year 834. Kenneth made him a maormor or kinglet, and gave him the lands which he called after his Christian name, Fife, now the shire or county of that designation. His descendants, from their great dignity, were sometimes called kings of Fife, and they were entitled to place the king of Scotland on the inaugural stone, to lead the van of the royal army, and to enjoy the privilege of a sanctuary for the clan Mac Duff, of which he was the founder. Gaz. Scoti. The Earl of Fife is a descendant of a junior branch of this ancient line.

Duey is a variant form of the Duff. Black.

Duey is the variant of Duff. Grandson of Dubh meaning "black"; one with a swarthy complexion, black.

Lastname Duey is the variant of the Duffy. Grandson of Dubhthach meaning "black".

Family name Duey is the variation of Kilduff. The son of the black youth.

Lastname is a variation of the MacDuff. The son of Dubh meaning "dark".