When Charles Pye was born on 7 April 1788, in Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Thomas Pye, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Happoldt, was 34. He had at least 5 sons and 4 daughters with Catherine Walters. He died in 1855, in Liscomb, St. Mary's, Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 67.
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English (north-West Midlands, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Norfolk): nickname from Middle English (Old French) pie ‘magpie’, which could be given to someone who wore black and white clothing, had grey-streaked dark hair, or had a loud, chattering voice and impertinent behaviour, or was cunning or sly. The uncomplimentary senses derive from the bird's behavior and are recorded uses of the word in Middle English and early Modern English.
English: occasionally perhaps a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn named Pie ‘magpie’. There were two London taverns so named, but whether these gave rise to a hereditary surname is not known. Surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in English.
English (of Norman origin): nickname from Anglo-Norman French and Middle English pie ‘merciful, compassionate, kind’, a variant of Old French, Anglo-Norman French piu, peu; see Pew (2).
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