Släkthistoria för Fillery
Fillery Vad efternamn betyder
from Anglo-Norman French fiz or fil (de) le rei ‘son of the king’ generally taken as implying that the bearer was a bastard son of the king but McKinley notes that in late 13th-century Sussex one bearer of this is a customary tenant and that in his case it must have been used either as a (mocking?) nickname or as a fancy way of denoting the son of someone surnamed le Ray ‘the king’. Compare Kingson and see Ray and King both of which occurred in medieval Sussex.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
