Pountney Family History
Pountney Name Meaning
from Poultney (Leics) which is recorded as Pontenei in 1086 and Pulteney in 1220. The place-name derives from an Old English personal name *Pulta (genitive *Pultan) + Old English ēg ‘island piece of dry ground in a fen’.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016