Hemingway

Hemingway One-Name Study

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Study details

Study: Hemingway

Variants: Hemmingway

Category: 3 - A study where research using core genealogical datasets and transcriptions is well under way on a global basis.

Website: www.hemingway.uk.com

DNA website: www.hemingway.uk.com/dna.html

Guild hosted website: hemingway.one-name.net

Contact: Mr Maurice Hemingway

About the study

The Hemingway One-Name Study started in 1996 and has grown ever since. A Journal was available to subscribers in the early days before major advancements with the websites. These are still available as back issues. There is also a DNA Project underway to help ascertain origins of the different lines. Details of all these and much material about various Hemingways include a wealth of information about Hemingway Wills etc can be found on the main website at http://www.hemingway.uk.com. Additional material including approximately 30 extensive family trees is on the associated website https://hemingway.one-name.net/index.php

Variant names

Whilst I have around 117 known variants that I have picked up in research, the vast majority of these are really 'spelling mistakes'. More conventionally accepted variants include Hemmingway, Hemenway Hemyngway(e) etc, but I am uncertain if Hem(m)ington is a variant or not. I have listed variants at http://www.hemingway.uk.com/variants.html

Name origin

The Hemingway name is definitely centred in the former West Riding of Yorkshire and more particularly in the Halifax area. The origin is certainly local and probably comes from a lost village. The earliest recorded reference found to date is from the 1307 Court Rolls of Wakefield that mention Richard De Hemnygway of Hipperholme. See http://www.hemingway.uk.com/derivation.html for more detail.

Historical occurrences of the name

Probably the person that springs to mind is the author Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 to 1961). Ernest was born in Illinois, son of Clarence Hemingway and Grace Hall. He was their second of six children. The Ernest Hemingway line is traced back to a Ralph Hemenway who was born circa 1603 and married in Roxbury, Mass in 1634. See http://www.hemingway.uk.com/ralph.html for more detail about Ralph Hemenway. Many researchers have claimed that Ralph was born circa 1603 in Bradford or at least West Riding of Yorkshire. There is currently (2021) however, no evidence to support such a claim.

There are of course other famous Hemingways, but the one that I am most keen to learn about is one that is reputed to have been Physician to King Henry VIII. If anyone can help me with this chap, I would be grateful. Famous Hemingways are also listed on the website https://hemingway.one-name.net/index.php and where possible they are linked to their family tree.

DNA

We have a Hemingway DNA Project underway. There are currently about thirty participants and full details are available on the website http://www.hemingway.uk.com The project is open to all - but given that it is a Y-Chromosome project, you need to be a male so if you are a female Hemingway, please get your brother, father or a male cousin to participate.

Links

Hemingway One-Name Study website http://www.hemingway.uk.com and also at https://hemingway.one-name.net/index.php

Contact Details

Mr Maurice Hemingway

General Search Results

Occurrences of the surname Hemingway in the Guild Indexes

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Global Marriages (public) 863
Global Marriages (members)* 910
Inscriptions Index 1
Modern Newspaper Index 3
Probate Index* 5
Datastores (members)* 1
Study materials for the study Hemingway* 1
References to the name Hemingway in the Guild Journal 7

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