Buckney Family History

from Buckney (Wood) in Thundridge (formerly a chapelry of Ware Herts) which is recorded as Bokeney in about 1430. The place-name derives from Old English *bōcen ‘beechen growing with beech trees’ + (ge)hæg ‘enclosure’.

post-medieval examples of this name may alternatively be variants of Bucknall. perhaps the English name in (1) by migration.

alternatively from a lost or unidentified place in Scotland so named. There is a stream called Buckney Burn near Dunkeld (Perths).