toye Name Meaning and History
English: variant spelling of Toy 1.
Irish: variant of Towey. (The English name is also present in Ireland.)
French: variant spelling of Toy.
French (Toyé): habitational name for someone from To(u)ya, a region in southwestern France (Bearn). As a French name, this is associated first with the Waldensians, a group of religious reformers founded by Valdensius of Lyon, France, in the 12th century, and second with the Huguenots.
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Stephen Toy married Mary Gilbert in 1809 - Mary was a direct decendant of Edward the 1st Longshanks king of England. They lived ina tiny hamlet called Polladras in Breage Cornwall.around 1846 their son Robert Toy moved to Whitchurch in Tavistock Devon where he married Mary Soper.At around this time the name was changedfrom toy to toye. Robert built Faunson Villa on Whitchurch Road, his wife Mary ran a dairy from an extention on the house whilst Robert worked as Mine Captain at the nearby Anderton Great Consols mine. They had a son Robert who married Mary Henwood, Mary was a teacher at the local school,and theyhad a son called robert who married Maud Whitehair, they in turn had a son called Ralph who was my father.my family remained in Whitchurch Tavistock until the 2nd world war when Ralph married Shiela Rogers they settled in Yorkshire.
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