Last name origins & meanings:
- English: nickname for a cheerful person, from a reduced form of
Anglo-Norman French enveisié ‘playful’, ‘merry’ (Old French
envoisié, past participle of envoisier ‘to sport,
enjoy oneself’).
- John Veazey came from England to MD in the late 17th
century. Thomas Ward Veazey (b. 1774) was a MD legislator and planter.
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