 Rigbeye, in his book "The Storey’s of Old" claims that the suffix “ey[e]”, in the variant of Storey, is equivalent to the Icelandic “ig” and signifies “water”.According to him, “Storr” also denotes large in the sense of vast and rough.Rigbeye's assumption therefore, is that “Storey” means "dweller by large and rough water".