ScotlandThe place name, from which the Benay family take their surname arrived in Scotland with the Viking settlers. The first to use Benay as a name no doubt lived at Bennie, near the village of Braco in the parish of Logi-Almond in Perthshire.
The surname Benay was first found in Cumberland, and Westmorland, where they held a family seat from ancient times, long before the Norman Conquest in 1066 A.D.
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Few standards of spelling and translation existed in the Middle Ages. spelling variations, are thus, an extremely common occurrence in records of ancient Scottish names. Over the years, Benay has been spelled Benny, Beny, Bennie, Bennee, Benne, Beney, Benney and others.
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Land and opportunity greeted all those who made it across the Atlantic. These settlers and their children went on to play important roles in the forging of the great nations of the United States and Canada. Clan societies and other Scottish organizations have preserved much of this heritage for the ancestors of those brave Scots. Immigration and passenger lists have documented the arrival of various people bearing the name Benay to North America: William Bennie who was a saddle bag preacher in Boston in 1635; Stephen Benney settled in New York in 1822; Edward Benny settled in Virginia in 1654; along with James and Joseph, and Alexander who settled in the same state..
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