Pushy meaning | Last name Pushy origin

A form of the Pusey. Pusey, or Pewsey, a parish in Wiltshire, which belonged to the family in very early times. Historian Camden thus mentions the antiquity of the race:
"From Kingston Lisle, the river Ock, just nowmentioned, runs through Dench worth and Pusey, the possession of a family of that surname, and held by a Horn, given to their ancestors by King Canutus the Dane;" to which his editor adds: "Thus much the inscription implies; but both the character and stile thereof are modern, many hundreds of years after the Conquest; so that of what antiquity soever the Horn itself may be, the inscription must have been added long after the age of Canutus. Not but the tradition of Canutus's giving it may probably be very true, since there are so many instances of this kindin many parts of England; and Ingulphus has expressly told us, that in those days it was common to make grants of lands by horns among other things."

This relic is described and figured in Archæologia, from whence we gain the following particulars. The horn is that of an ox, of moderate size, having in the middle a ring of silver gilt, and neatly mounted on two hound's feet, which support the whole. The inscription on the ring, in Old English characters, is:
Kyng Knowde geve Wyllyam Pewse
This horne to holde by thy lonð

Dr. Hiekes states, that both the horn and manor were, in this time, possessed by Charles Pusey, Esq., who had recovered them in Chaneery, before Lord Chancellor Jefferies, the horn itself being produced in court, and with universal admiration received, admitted, and proved to be the identical horn by which, as by a charter, Canute had conveyed the manor of Pusey seven hundred years before." The inscription is doubtless, of the XV century, but it may have replaced an older one, and the possessorship of the estate from a very early period is indisputable.

Pushy is the variant form of Pewsey. See Pusey - Pusey, or Pewsey, a parish in Wiltshire, which belonged to the family in very early times. Historian Camden thus mentions the antiquity of the race:
"From Kingston Lisle, the river Ock, just nowmentioned, runs through Dench worth and Pusey, the possession of a family of that surname, and held by a Horn, given to their ancestors by King Canutus the Dane;" to which his editor adds: "Thus much the inscription implies; but both the character and stile thereof are modern, many hundreds of years after the Conquest; so that of what antiquity soever the Horn itself may be, the inscription must have been added long after the age of Canutus. Not but the tradition of Canutus's giving it may probably be very true, since there are so many instances of this kindin many parts of England; and Ingulphus has expressly told us, that in those days it was common to make grants of lands by horns among other things."

This relic is described and figured in Archæologia, from whence we gain the following particulars. The horn is that of an ox, of moderate size, having in the middle a ring of silver gilt, and neatly mounted on two hound's feet, which support the whole. The inscription on the ring, in Old English characters, is:
Kyng Knowde geve Wyllyam Pewse
This horne to holde by thy lonð

Dr. Hiekes states, that both the horn and manor were, in this time, possessed by Charles Pusey, Esq., who had recovered them in Chaneery, before Lord Chancellor Jefferies, the horn itself being produced in court, and with universal admiration received, admitted, and proved to be the identical horn by which, as by a charter, Canute had conveyed the manor of Pusey seven hundred years before." The inscription is doubtless, of the XV century, but it may have replaced an older one, and the possessorship of the estate from a very early period is indisputable.

Lastname is variant of Pusey. One who came from Pusey, i.e., pea island, in Berkshire.