Edith,
I answered to your letter, what you sent to my own e-address.
More infos are:
it looks like, the Transylvanian Füzys and the Sopronian Füzys are not the same family, but I am not absolutely sure. The Transylvanian Füzys were relatives of the Báthory family, too, and have been nobles earlier, like the Sopronians. The line in Sopron got the noble-certificate later.
You asked, how the Füzi have been Füzy?
The case is, that in the Hungarian, by the namegiving habits are a lot of names, what are named after a town, with the suffix " i ", what in English is "from".
The noblemen, taking differency, changed that " i " to " y ", what possible to translate like "of".
The fűz in Hungarian means sallow. There are a lot of places, which have in their name the word sallow, because the towns are named many times about some speciality in their area. As you can see:
http://www.radixindex.com/cgi-bin/hn1913.cgi?place=fuz
Probably your Füzys originally from any place, what named by the same way: "sallow+adjective". The Hungarians are using many times only the noun of a name of a town......
The other case is the nobleman's prename. I do not know this phrase in English. The Hungarian writes the surname at first, only after that(your) firstname. Let we think, your ancestor's name, who have been declarated to be nobleman, was named Kovács (Smith). He lived (or got property of the king) in a town, named a variation of fűz. So, to separate him he got a prename, a nobleman's prename, and that was written "füzi Kovács". But, later he left the "real" name, and used only the name Füzi(y).
I think, they are quite dificult habits.Could I explain well?
Lajos