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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It's English, from Essex and Suffolk: Matthew de Peytun, in 1240 is the first recorded use of the name as a name for a person, in the Feet of Fine for Essex, housed at the Essex Archeological society. The first recorded use of the name as a placename is in the Doomsday Book, 1087. It is was a manor near Ramsholt, on the Deben River in Suffolk. The name is derived from "Peaga's Tun", Tun being a Saxon word for farm. |