SAY

SAY. The first of this name mentioned by Dugdale, is Picot de Say, who, in the time of the Conqueror, was one of the principal personages in Shropshire, under Roger de Montgomer}', Earl of Shrewsbury. Though the pedigree is incomplete, he vas, no doubt, the progenitor of the great family of Say, which gaVe birth to Geoffrey de Say, one of the twenty-five barons of Magna Charta, and many other eminent persons. The barony became abeyant in 1382, and still so remains. The name aiipears to have been derived from the comnnnie of Sai, near Argentan, in

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.