Släkthistoria för Trays
Trays Vad efternamn betyder
variant of Tray with post-medieval -s. for the WR Yorks name see Trees. perhaps from Treix (Haute-Marne) or from one of several places named Trie in Oise (Picardy) but the absence of a preposition in any of the early surname forms makes this an uncertain origin. The place-names derive from Frankish thresk ‘fallow land’.perhaps from Middle English trays treys (Old French trais) denoting either one of a pair of ropes by which a harnessed animal pulls its load or the whole harness of a draught animal or a team of harnessed horses or something pulled by a horse perhaps a sledge.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
