"Greater London" 1886, Chapter 43 on Waltham Abbey.
"Tovi or Tovious was the Standard Bearer to King Canute. Waltham, Essex …. is first mentioned in a document dated as far back as the time of Canute the Great, at which time its then owner, Tovi or Tovious, Standard Bearer to the great monarch, founded on the outskirts of the forest here a church and village. After his death Athelstan, his son and heir, a prodigal young man, squandered his inheritance, and Waltham appears by some means to have reverted to the Crown. The religious establishment of Tovi however continued and probably with some augmentation till the reign of Edward the Confessor."
Tovey surname history
It would seem that my DNA would go some way to support this history.
The Tovey crest is displayed as a two-