Family name research

Your Family Name History

Answer the questions as well as you can, and please add photos when you have some.  (When you are not sure how to answer a question, search with the question and your name in the search line.)

1. What is your last name? Prystay
2. What other last names are in your family that are important (ex: your grandparent’s last names, last names of your cousins) Healy is my grandmothers name, on my moms side. My cousin Robbie Graves is on my mothers side.
3. What are the early origins of your last name? Through out the early history of this name spellings of the surname changed. Due to the recorders interpretation

      of how the names sounded at the time of entry.

      in various

4. What is the early history of your last name? There is very little early history recorded on house of names for Healy.
5. Are there any notable people who have your last name (very old or recent)
6. If it did migrate, when did your family name migrate to Canada? Abby Healy age 40 landed in Canada in 1823.
7. What is some history of setting in Canada for your family? Early immigration began in the 1800s.
8. If there is a family crest, please put a picture of it in here. There is a family crest but we can not copy the image.