Does anyone know the origin of the Tay surname?
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The Tay surname mainly originates in South east China and is also very common in Malaysia and Singapore due to emigration from China. I live in England and have also come across the surname with origins in West Wales, near Swansea, i hope this is of use.
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The origin of the surname TAY comes from Scotland. There is a river and a valley named Tay, located near Dundee. With kindly regards Doris Meinken-Jaeggi, Germany
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the tay's (also spelt theys tey tais tea tee etc)were a large and important family in the area around colchester in essex england from about 1300 to 1550 when they no longer produced a male heir and became much less well documented my branch of the family come from near birmingham uk and i have tried to find their origin but cannot so far get back before tobias tay born 1798 ther are a few mentions of tays in scotland but far fewer than in england and it seems the river loch etc have little to do with peoples surname but if you know better please let me know ps i am a tay but changed my name for family reasons
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Tim, I am relatively new to this but have started looking into my Father's real family since he was adopted at birth. His mother was an Ina Constance Tay born 11-12-1890. Her dad was a Harry Tay, a butcher from Wombourne and was born about 1864, but so far I haven't been able to find any more. Are you part of the same extended family ? Perhaps you may have some information that may help me in my research ? Thanks, Jane
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Is Wombourne a real place? I say this because our city, Woburn, was frequently misspelled as it was written down. We have records of it spelled Wobourne which is very close to what you wrote. So if Wombourne is not an actual place, they may have meant Woburn, MA.
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See my earlier entry re Tay surname but now can confirm one branch of Tays definitely located early on in the 17th and 18th century, maybe earlier, in Warwickshire/ Worcestershire/ Staffordshire areas particularly localities of Studley (Worcs), Redditch, later moving to Aston in Central Birmingham and Kings Norton. Also some agricultural folk in the area eg. Wytham. Some confusion in census data as parts of Worcestershire became Warwickshire. However, I am not sure whether these people may have relocated from other areas originally to access work opportunities generated in those counties during Industrial Revolution. Certainly my branch of the Tay family seem fairly humble to start with, farmers etc and with some jobs such as under slaughterman!! But eventually due to the industrial growth, my ggrandfa owning a large Birmingham factory and becoming very prosperous. There are also some much earlier mentions of Tays in Essex including some knights and gentry! If you do Google search you will bring these up. Note that various Tay family groups may not necessarily be related as name is a simple one and could easily be distorted version of other names such as Tye/Tee while being transcribed by census collectors. For some years in our family we believed our paternal relatives were originally from Scotland where there is a beautiful River and Loch Tay, as well as famous Tay Bridge disaster. My uncle had been contacted by an American tourist after WWII who told him that there had been six or so brothers who moved down from Scotland to the Birmingham area. However, I have no other current evidence of this but will research it a little. Christine Tay
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Christine: I find by reading your post, I am parallelling your family back ground. My ggrandfather Stephen Tay was born in Birmingham in 1844 and worked in a brass factory. My grandfather, Edwin Tay, one of five children was born in Birmingham in July 1872. He migrated to the United States in the 1890's and married my grandmother in 1901. I too felt there is a scottish origin somewhere in our family line. If you are interested in any of the information I have, I will gladly send it to you.
Albert Tay
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Hi Albert I'm not sure where the link is but we may well have relatives in common. There were a few branches of Tays in Birmingham in 1800s, often in metal trades, others were butchers. I suspect they all come from a common root but we would need to know parents of Stephen Tay b. c1812 Birmingham and if they are connected to Thomas Tay b c1772. My full family tree is on Genesreunited website but I can email you a Word document with my Tay family tree. I also had a look at your relatives in the census and note a couple of coincidences which may not mean anything, eg. Stephen Tay was a brushmaker and in 1871 lived in Vaughton St, while my great grandmother, Ellen Gregg, was a bone brush maker and lived in Vaughton St in 1861 with her parents. She later married Henry Tay, who built up a small brass business into a company. Chris Tay speedy9491 @ yahoo. com
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I'm a Tay :) Finding this stuff all really interesting, never knew where the name came from before apart from the links to Scotland - we also have some Norweigan links apparently?
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