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Review about Miss Money Penny ------Performed by Placebo | 05/18/2006 11:00:00 AM Our Family name Pike is also said to be MoneyPenny Alice H. Williams wrote: > I know the story Grandfather told. It was that King Alfred was playing > droits with a men named Pike. He lost. He said to his friend: "I now > dub you Lord Money a Penny." Grandfather believed that but I have my > doubts. That is printed somewhere lost to me. I like Moneypenny better > than Pike. My genealogy has always been easier because of the odd > names encountered. They stand out from the crowd. Then I ended up with > a very common name! Moneypenny is said by one source http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx/moneypenny-family-crest.htm to be of Norman origin and to refer to a rich person or ironically to a poor person. "When the ancestors of the Moneypenny family emigrated to England following the Norman Conquest in 1066 they brought their family name with them. They lived in Fifeshire. Moneypenny is a compound name composed of two elements, the Old English moning, meaning money, and the Old English pening, meaning penny. Moneypenny originated as a nickname to identify a rich man or may have been ironically used to describe a poor man. Another derivation, which is equally valid in certain cases, indicates that Moneypenny is a local name adapted from the place called Magnepeigne in Normandy. Spelling variations include: Moneypenny, Monypenny and others. First found in Fifeshire where they were granted lands by the King of Scotland. Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Clemens Moneypenny settled in Pennsylvania in 1773." Thanks to alicedwilliams for submitting the review.