Släkthistoria för Gigney
Gigney Vad efternamn betyder
perhaps a variant of Gidney (see Gedney) with assimilation of Gidn- to Gign-. Compare Thomas Gegney 1725 Thomas Gidny 1750 in IGI (Blakeney Norfolk). Pronunciation of final -ey as -er in the earliest examples is paralleled in Gidner's Wood in Bayford (Herts) which the editors of Place-Names of Herts p. 215 associate with Robert Gedney (1545).
Källa: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021
