Lucie Fish??

[Julian]

Hi, can anybody help this visitor to the site?

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Dear Anglers,

 

I have been told that an English fish named a 'lucie' is the derivative that founded our surname. I have been searching various links and unable to find what a lucie fish is exactly. It may be a local colloquialism and non-researchable. Have you heard of them? Do you know what kind of fish it is? I am just curious and would like to know. I would appreciate any assistance you may offer and thank you for your time.

 

Steven Luce

 

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Cheers… Julian

[Dave Lumb]

Probably the pike (esox lucius)..

[Chris Plumb]

luce

 

Luce, n. [OF. lus, L. lucius a kind of fish.] (Zo["o]l.) A pike when full grown. --Halliwell.

 

 

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

 

 

Chris

[Peter Waller]

It could also relate to 'Lucfier', the devil. Or even to Luce Women!!

[StuMac]

Pike used to be called Luce. Isaac Walton's chapter on Pike fishing in the Complete Angler (1653) is called 'Observations of the Luce or pike; with diections how to fish for him'

[ThePiker]

probably nothing whatsoever to do with it,but the Irish for pike is "An Lius"

still,a useless bit of info for you all.

 

[ 02. July 2004, 11:04 PM: Message edited by: ThePiker ]

[Bruno Broughton]

I go along with the pike theories, but there is an alternative.

 

The 'lucie' could be a bastardisation of 'leuciscus'. The scientific name for dace is Leuciscus leuciscus, and that for chub is Leuciscus cephalus.

 

As we will never know for sure, I suppose it depends on whether you want to be known as a bit of a pike, dace or chub