However, I find that Portsmouth was settled by the Laconia Company, composed of men from Exeter, Dorchester, Bristol, Plymouth, Shrewsbury, London, Etc. It was headed by Gorges and Mason. Captain John Mason lived in Portsmouth, Dorsetshire, and in 1629 was Captain of the Portsmouth Port. Gorges was from Bristol, Somersetshire.

In old English records the name Pave and Pavey appears in the very early so-called "Battle Abbey Roll".

"Roger Pavi or de Pavia occurs in the 'Battle Abbey Roll', in the Exchequer Rolls of 1180-95; and two families of the same name Pavee de Provenchere and Pavee de Vendeure, still continued to the end of the last century. (Nobiliare de Normandie)"

Walter Pavey, mentioned 1222 in the Doomsday of St. Paul.

Thomas Pavi and his wife Alice occur in Staffordshire in 1272 )Pedes Fininum) and N. Pavei in Hundred Rolls (same date).

Henry Pavey of Chippenham, and John Pavey, each married in Alice, in Kent, 1319.

Richard Pavey was in the retinur of Thomas, Earl of Arundel, in 1415. Earliest mention --Ricardo de Pavei in 1183 witnessed Robert de Stafford Charter to Bordesley Abbot.

Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Pavey, of Plaitford, Wiltshire, married William Fox of Parley — same country, — was grandmother of first Lord Ilchester and First Lord Holland".

There is a Hugo Pavey mentioned as Arch deacon of Wiltshire at