Origins: The Passmore Family in England.
The Surname Passmore spelled in various ways in early texts, including "Passemer," "Pesmore," "Peasemore," "Passemore." "Pasmore," and, at a later time, "Parthmore" and "Parchmore," can be traced to the early twelfth century in English records. One Nineteenth-century tradition of the Passmores in America held that the family came to England from Normandy with William the Comqueror. Although any claim of aristocratic ancestry necessarily must be regarded with caution, the evidence suggests that it may be correct. The family took its name from a pre-Conquest parish called Peasemore or Peysmer in the hundred of Roeburg (or Rowbury; now Faircross) in the county of Berkshire. The parish appears in the Domesday Book in 1086, two decades after the Conquest, in the latinized form "Praxemere." The name is generally thought to have been derived from the Old English pisen or pease, meaning "peas", and mere, meaning "pool" or "moor," the combination perhaps designating a wild pea-like plant that grew in marshes, such as the buckbean (marsh trefoil). As early as 1242 documents refer to the woods of Peasemore (or Pessonere or Personere). (Taken from "A Quaker Family Through Six Generations. The Passmores In America. By Rober H. Smith)
The earliest manuscript history of the Passmores in America, written by Pennock Passmore in 1838, states that according to a tradition handed down in the Passmore family the first persons of that name in Englend came over from Normandy with William the conqueror in the year 1066 (Passmore Manuscript 1838, p2).
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