Pashley Family History

English:: nickname from Old French passe lewe ‘cross the water’ probably used for a seafarer or sailor. Compare Parslow. The name was sometimes treated like a Norman habitational name by adding the preposition de although no such placename has been identified in Normandy or neighboring regions.

Habitational name from Pashley in the parish of Ticehurst Sussex. The placename is from Old English Pæcces + lēah ‘Pæcca's wood or clearing’. A district of Eastbourne Sussex bearing this name derives it from the surname; a family called Pashley had moved there from Ticehurst by the later part of the 13th century.