Pascoe Explained
For other uses see Pascoe (disambiguation).
| Pascoe |
| Gender: | masculine |
| Meaning: | "associated with Passover (or Easter)" |
| Origin: | Cornish (from Latin) |
| Related Names: | Pasco, Pasko, Pascal, Pascale, Pascalle, Paschal, Paskal, Paschalis, Pascaline, Pasquale, Pasqual, Pascual |
Pascoe is a Cornish given name and surname which means "Easter children" from the Cornish language Pask, cognate of Latin Pascha ("Easter"). Pascoe is a Cornish pet form of the name Pascal, introduced by the Norman knights into England after the Conquest started in 1066, and derives from the Latin paschalis, which means "relating to Easter" from Latin Pascha ("Easter"). Alternative spellings are Pasco, Pascow and Pascho. Pascoe is the most common Cornish name.[1]
"Pascoe" is also a Russian, Ukrainian and Macedonian name as it is the modern adaptation of the Slavic name "Pasko" (Macedonian: Паско; Russian or Ukrainian: Пасько) due to 18th and 19th century migration from Eastern Europe, creating the alternative Romanised spelling.
Pasco is found as surname in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States and France. Pasco is also a rare Italian surname found in Northern Italy: Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto and Tuscany.[2] Both the Italian and the English surnames share the same Latin root and derive from the Latin word Pascha.
Notable people with this given name
Notable people with the surname Pascoe
- Alan Peter Pascoe (born 1947), British athlete
- B. Lynn Pascoe (born 1943), Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Political Affairs
- Bruce Pascoe (born 1947), Australian writer
- Colin Pascoe (born 1965), Welsh football player
- Chris Pascoe (born 1966), English humorous author
- Derek Pascoe (born 1957), British musician, father of Sara
- Eva Pascoe (born 1964), Polish born British internet entrepreneur
- Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe (1813–1893), Cornish entomologist
- George Pascoe-Watson (born 1966), British journalist
- J. Ernest Pascoe (1900–1972), Canadian politician, farmer and journalist
- Joaquín Gamboa Pascoe (1922–2016), Mexican trade union leader and politician
- John Pascoe (born 1948), Chief Federal Magistrate of Australia
- John Pascoe Fawkner (1792–1869), Australian pioneer, businessman and politician
- Keith Pascoe (born 1959), British musician and conductor
- Len Pascoe (born 1950, Australian cricketer
- Mal Pascoe (1933–2020), Australian footballer and coach
- Matthew Pascoe (born 1977), Australian cricketer
- McKenna "Bear" Pascoe (born 1986), American football player
- Michael Pascoe, Australian financial journalist
- Paul Pascoe (1908–1976), New Zealand architect
- Peggy Pascoe (1954–2010), American professor of history and ethnic studies
- Peter Pascoe (born 1953), Australian Paralympic shooter
- Robert Pascoe, (born 1932), British Adjutant-General to the Forces
- Russell Pascoe (1940–1963), third-last prisoner to be executed in a British prison
- Sara Pascoe (born 1981), British comedian, daughter of Derek Pascoe
- Sophie Pascoe (born 1993), New Zealand paralympic swimmer
- Thomas Pascoe (1846/48–1938), English migrant to California
- Thomas Pascoe (politician) (1859–1939), member of South Australia's Legislative Council
Fictional characters
- Harris Pascoe, a recurring character in the Poldark series of books and television
- Peter Pascoe, in Dalziel and Pascoe, series of crime novels by Reginald Hill
- Jackie Webb (née Pascoe), fictional character on television series Footballers' Wives, played by Gillian Taylforth
- Kyle Pascoe, in British drama Footballers' Wives, played by Gary Lucy
- Pascoe, the village pastor in Dame Ethel Smyth’s opera The Wreckers
- Victor Pascow, wreck victim in Stephen King's "Pet Cemetery" .
Notable people with the surname Pasco
See also
Notes and References
- White, G. Pawley, A Handbook of Cornish Surnames.
- Web site: PASCO significato origine cognome famiglia | Gens. www.gens.info.
