last name SARNEY
Could anyone tell me the origin ofthe British surname Sarney?

Thanks.

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Is this a British surname? I've found no reference to it apart from an entry in a genealogical directory which informs that the name was in Oxford pre-1900.
The nearest to Sarney I've found is Sarne, a Jewish surname from a Lithuanian place-name.
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Correction: having surfed the web I find references to a Sarney family in Gloucestershire, early 16th century; also in Oxfordshire, 16th century. Still don't know what it means though. Perhaps a place-name ending in -ey, "island."
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maternal line my grandmother was a sarney
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