The Haynes One-Name study was formally started in 2019. It started as a result of not being able to find a connection between two Haynes located 8.6 miles apart in Shropshire. This introduced me to collecting Haynes and variants in Shropshire. However, I failed to find the connection, so I started spreading the search to other counties which meant I had lots of records but little organisation. It was time to find the experts and to be guided into a better way of organising my data structure. So I registered with the Guild of One-Name Studies.

Using Nominex at the Surname Matching website has provided a list of 296 potential variants and deviants. Those with more than 150 entries in the 1881 Census are show above. Experience has demonstrated how easily in parish registers and censuses the same person has had different variants of Haynes recorded. Even different members of the same family at the same time have had different variants.

English (Shropshire): from the Welsh personal name Einws, a diminutive of Einion (of uncertain origin, popularly associated with einion ‘anvil’).

English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Hain

English: habitational name from Haynes in Bedfordshire. This name first appears in Domesday Book as Hagenes, which Mills derives from the plural of Old English hægen, hagen ‘enclosure’. Irish: variant of Hines.

The most common root is an enclosure of some sort, whether hedgerows, livestock pens or some other structure intended to separate, protect or delineate rural areas or farms. If indeed an Old English word similar to "hayne" described an enclosure such as a hedgerow that surrounded a farm or livestock. Although searching for these obsolete words and trying to tease out their modern meanings is difficult, there are some hints in other old English words. "Hæg-" is an old English root that appears in words like "hægweard" (a keeper of cattle in a common field -- perhaps like "hedge-warden"), "hægsugga" (hedge-sparrow) and "hæghál" (safe and sound). The "æ" dipthong would produce a sound that would rhyme with the modern English "hay", so it's not far-fetched to think that a surname could evolve from "hay-" that meant "enclosure". In this way, the variants on Hayne resemble the surname "Bailey", which also derives from a structure that provides enclosing protection

However, we also have the following which provided more detail. They include a reference copied from the " Stemmata Botevilliana," which suggests a source of the genealogy of haynes, Haines, etc. This pedigree runs back in Montgomeryshire through Einion to Gwyn, Lord of Guilsfield, son of Griffith, son of Beli, descendant from Brockwel Yschithrog, who reigned over Powysland (Wales), a.d. 607. Einion, Prince of Powys, was distinguished in the wars against Henry I of England, a.d. 1100-1135. He had a son whom he named after himself, but by distinction, and according to the Welsh custom of the times, he was familiarly called Einws, which was pronounced Eins. Now this son of Einion had a son John who was called John Einws — afterwards written John Eines of Bausley, in the parish of Alderbury, which parish was both in Shropshire and Montgomeryshire. Shrewsbury Avas the market town for this Alderbury parish. Among the ancient records of that town the name frequently occurs, and in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth centuries it was variously written as Eines, Eynes, Heynes, Heanes, Haines, Haynes. The pronunciation probably was the same. While but few people were able to write their name in those days, and as names appealed more to the ear than to the eye, it was very easy to give the aspirate '”H", so that when written it would be Heins or Heines ; and as the vowel sounds were not as sharply distinguished in those times as at present, it was easy to write the " a " in place of the " e," and the " y " in place of the "i." Thus we have the same name written by different branches of the family as Heanes, Heynes, Haynes, and Haines. It is evident that Haines is more in accord with the original name, but the difference is quite immaterial, for in all cases it is pronounced the same. Very likely, as is claimed by some English genealogists, the name for other Haines (Haynes) families may have started from one or two different sources ; but the Shropshire family starts with the Prince of Powys (Wales).

Vlricus Hagana: in the Domesday Book of 1086, Suff. 434b

From Haisne near Arras. Hugh de Haynes witnessed a charter of Payne de Beauchamp, founding Chicksand Priory, 12th cent. (Mon. ii. 793)

Peter Hain in the Pipe Rolls (Dorset), dated 1200

Thomas filius Hayene, County Norfolk, who was recorded in the 'Hundred Rolls', in the year 1273

Ralph Hayne, Somerset, 1 Edward III: Kirby's Quest. 1327

Ade Heynes, Somerset, 1 Edward III: ibid. 1327

Walter de Haynes. William Hayne, 1325, bailsman for the M.P. for Ilchester (Parliamentary Writs). — The Norman People (1874)

Alice Heynes, which was dated 1327, in the "Subsidy Rolls of Somerset", during the reign of King Edward III, known as "The Father of the Navy", 1327 - 1377.

William Heyene was noted in the 1327 Subsidy Rolls of Somerset

Margery Haynes in the Essex County Rolls, dated 1352.

Johannes Hayne, who was recorded in the 'Poll Tax', of the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the year 1379 and a Thomas Hane, was also recorded in the same year in this ancient document.

Adam Hauneson, 1379: ibid.

Robertus Haynson, 1379: ibid.

Walter Hayne, born 1450 in Stowford, Devon, very near Sidmouth Haynes

Richard Haynes, born c. 1472 in Berkshire Haines

Richard Haines, born 1490 in Northamptonshire

Local, 'of Haynes,' a parish in the Diocese of Ely. 1581. Married — Percival Archboll and Susan Heynes: St. Mary Aldermary. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, written: 1872-1896 by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

Johannes Heynnes and Margaret Childs m 1583

John Haynes buried 25 April 1584

Haynes alias Hinde, Alicia daughter of Richard Haynes bap 10 Jan 1587

Elizabeth daughter of Richard Heynes bap 26 June 1591

Edward son of Richard Heynes bap 30 Sept 1593

John Haynes (1594-1653): the first Governor of Connecticut Colony was earlier he had been governor of Massachusetts. He had emigrated from Essex, England, where his father was Lord of the Manor of Copford Hall near Colchester.

William Haines, an early settler in America, was recorded on a "List of the living in Virginia" taken on February 16th, 1623.

Alice daughter of Thomas Heynes &? Elizabeth 3 April 1626

Jonathan Haynes came over in 1632, and settled in Newbury, Mass., but in 1686 removed with his family to Haverhill, where he was killed by the Indians, 22 Feb 1698.

Richard Haines of Aynhoe, Northamptonshire, England, is at the head of another large and influential family, which settled at Evesham, Burlington County, N.J., in 1682.

Samuel Haines, who, drenched by the mighty sea which wrecked the vessel on which he came, set foot on this shore Aug. 15, 1635, and to whom and his descendants this work is primarily devoted.

James Hinds of Salem, 1637, so frequently appears as "Hains," "Haines," and "Haynes," in the early records of that town, and parish.The proper surname of Richard Haines, a Sussex Worthy, was Hayne (or Haine).

The spelling Haines does not occur in Sussex before the seventeenth century, except in the registers of Beeding, though Haynes is found at Petworth, Stortington, Billingshurst, and Wiggenholt before that date. There is no evidence that any earlier ancestor of Richard than Gregory, his father, could write his name. He spelt it Heine in 1633, and Heines in 1638.

Walter Haynes of Sutton, Mandeville, Wiltshire, a linen-weaver, at the age of fifty-five came to this country in 1638 with family and servants, in the ship Confidence, and in the following year settled in Sudbury, Mass.

Benjamin Haines came from England, and was settled at Southampton, L.I., in 1639.

Richard Haynes (1659–1726), Commoner of the Hall and High Sheriff of Gloucestershire (1700).  

Andrew Haines: aged 20, a labourer by trade, from the county of Essex, England. He emigrated to North America in 1774, sailing from the Port of London aboard the ship named the 'Active' on the 21 November 1774, arriving in Grenada on the 28 November, where he served as an indentured servant.

William Clark Haines (10 January 1810 – 3 February 1866), Australian colonial politician, was the first Premier of Victoria

Field Marshal Sir Frederick Paul Haines GCB GCSI CIE (10 August 1819 – 11 June 1909) was a British Army officer.

John Hayne, dropping the terminal letter on migration, from near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, settled in St. Bartholomew Parish, Collerton County, S.C, in 1700

Carolyn Haines: Mississippi author born May 12, 1953 Lucedale, Mississippi, United States who uses the pseudonyms R.B. Chesterton, Caroline Burnes, and Lizzie Hart, is a prolific mystery author and former journalist specializing in mysteries set in the Mississippi Delta

Work in progress, results will include variations and analysis by sub-districts.

According to Henry Brougham Guppy’s The Homes of English Family Names (1890) the following distributions will be the beginning of my journey:

Haines: Herefordshire, 0.09%; Oxfordshire, 0.12%; Somerset, 0.11%.

Haine: Somerset, 0.15%.

Hayne: Cornwall, 0.09%.

Haynes: Derbyshire, 0.07%; Herefordshire, 0.09%; Huntingdonshire, 0.25%; Northamptonshire, 0.25%; Oxfordshire, 0.54%; Shropshire, 0.17%; Staffordshire, 0.10%; Warwickshire, 0.20%, Worcestershire, 0.18%

At present I have collected the entries of Haynes and variations from the 1841, 1851 and 1881 census about 66,000 entries to be analysed.

At present my DNA is linked to my tree on Ancestry. I am happy to provide a link to those interested.