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PANNETT Family History

This is an interesting and unusual name which is the diminutive form (as in "son of" or "little") of the Medieval given name Pain(e) from the Old French "Paien", and Latin "Paganus". The Latin name is a derivative of "Pagus", meaning an outlying village, and was used at first, in the sense of a rustic, later as a civilian as opposed to a soldier, and finally a heathen. In spite of its unchristian associations this was a very common christian name in the 12th Century and 13th Century and was no doubt, given without any, thought to its meaning.