Have talked about how weird the name "Rust D'Eye" is? Rusted Eye?
Last name: Rust
Recorded in several spellings including Rust, Ruste, and the rare Rustman, is English and sometimes Scottish. It derives from the Old English pre 7th century word "rust", meaning red, and was originally given as a nickname to someone with reddish hair or a ruddy complexion. The surname was first recorded in the early 11th Century, (see below), which places it among the earliest recorded surnames, with Robert Rust being noted in the Winton Rolls of Hampshire in 1148, and Robert Rust in the Hundred Rolls of Huntingdonshire in 1273. In 1492, Thomas Rust, rector of Congham, was noted in the "Norfolk County Records", and William Roust, tenant in Auchinanzie, Aberdeenshire, (1511), is the earliest bearer of the name in Scottish records. Apart from Scotland, the name is now chiefly found in East Anglia. On October 22nd 1542, Gyles Rust and Agnes Ive were married in Bardwell, Norfolk, and on February 4th 1598, John Rust married an Anne Blagbone in Kelvedon near Colchester, Essex. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Cenwold Rust, which was dated 1016, "The Old English Byname Register", Kent, during the reign of Ethelred the Unready, 978 - 1016. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
Last name: d' Eye
This is an early medieval English surname. Recorded as Ey and hence one of a very small group of two lettered surnames, as well as d'Eye, Ege, Eye and Eyes, the latter literally means 'from Eye,' this is a habitational name. It originates from any of the varied places called Eye, derived from the pre 7th century Olde English word 'eg', meaning an island. These places are usually regarded as the parishes of Eye in the counties of Suffolk, Middlesex, Northampton, Oxford and Hereford, but it is possible other places existed in areas of fenland, which were later drained, ceased to be islands, and disappeared or changed their name. The Middlesex parish as Eia was first recorded in the famous Domesday Book of 1086, as was the parish of Eia in Suffolk. Habitational surnames are those originally given to the local lord of the manor and his (or sometimes her) descendants, or to people who left their former homes to move elsewhere. The earliest recordings appear to be those of Peitvin de Eya of Suffolk in the pipe rolls of that county in 1191 in the reign of King Richard 1st (1189 - 1199), Peter Ege of the same county in the same year, whilst Stephen de Eye of Yorkshire and Ernald de Ey of Norfolk appear in the Hundred Rolls of landowners in 1273.
