Judge Massey writes about the
possible ancestry of the Nicholas Massey, Will 24 Sep.1688, probated
11 Apr.1693, Dorchester Co., Md.:
"Nicholas, by my theory -
for not proven, was probably from the Isle of Ely (not an Island) which
is now the northern part of Cambridgeshire in England, laying due North
of London. By the time of his immigration the use of Nicholas had
ceased in its popularity in Cheshire, the seat of the undoubted
beginning of this family.
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About the year 1536 the first Nicholas in the Isle of Ely had led his
brothers (except Alexander) in the move from Manchester, in Lancashire
and on the Mersey River, to Isle of Ely ... known is that a
number of Marshey families were settled in the shire of Isle of Ely,
and that the name of Nicholas was popular among members of this family.
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