HAYHURST Family Tree

Mary Ann LINTON Jenkins (1828-1876); Emma Caroline LINTON Mendler Smith (1829-1909; Harriet LINTON Fuller King (1831-1912); Deborah Caroline LINTON Fowler (1834-1916); John Edward LINTON (1838-1901); Jerome D. LINTON (1839-1910); Francis "Frank" Charles LINTON (1844-1911); Morris LINTON (1848-1860)

(2^nd great-grandfather & 2^ndgreat-grandmother)

James LINTON (1769-1854) & Ann CROASDALE (1776-1852)

Children

George Croasdale LINTON (1802-1863); Lewis Colbert LINTON (1803-1876); Maurice Peter LINTON (1807-1872); Robert Henry LINTON (1809-1884); James LINTON, Jr. (1812 ?); Ann Croasdale LINTON (1815-1895); Deborah Caroline LINTON Ridge (1891-1894); Jeremiah Croasdale LINTON (1821- ?)

(3^rd great-grandfather & 3^rd great-grandmother)

(Master millwright) Isaiah LINTON (1739-1775) & Sarah HIRST (1742-1823)

children

Laura Ellicott LINTON (1766-1825); Thomas LINTON (1768-1829); James LINTON (1769-1854); William LINTON (1772-1848); Sarah LINTON (1774-1817)

(4^th great-grandfather & 4^th great-grandmother)

John LINTON (1706-1761) & Elizabeth HAYHURST (1709-1795)

children

Jacob LINTON (1732-1774); Rebekah LINTON Atkinson (1734-1810); David LINTON (1736-1739); Isaiah LINTON (1739-1775); William LINTON (1742-1802); Martha LINTON (1744-1744); Elizabeth LINTON Hannes (1751-1795)

HAYHURST Surname

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According to Name Origin Research © 1980, HAYHURST is surname of Anglo-Saxon origin and is a topographic surname. The name comes from someone who lives near woodland located at a high elevation or near a hedge or enclosure made of trees on a hill. The oldest HAYHURST Seal can be traced back to the parish of Ribchester, County Lancashire, England before the Norman Conquest in 1066. Ribchester is a village and civil parish within the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Ribble, 6 miles northwest of Blackburn and 12 miles east of Preston. The village has a long history with evidence of Bronze Age beginnings. It is well known as a significant Roman site being the location of a Roman cavalry fort called Bremetennacum.

The second element of the name derives from the Olde English pre 7^th Century "hyrst" (Middle English "hurst"), knoll, hillock, wooded hill, and the first element may be either the Olde English "haeg", enclosure, "heah", high, or "heg", hay. Topographical surnames were among the earliest created, since both natural and man-made features in the landscape provided easily recognizable distinguishing names in the small communities of the Middle Ages.

Early examples of the surname include Thomas de Heyhurst (Sussex, 1327). In 1571, one Lawrence Hayhurst, of Ribhester, was entered in the Lancashire Wills Records held at Richmond. A Coat of Arms granted to the Hayhurst family of Parkhead, Lancashire, is a silver shield, having an azure chevron charged with a golden sun between three hay-rakes proper.

The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Thomas de Hayhurst, which was dated 1246, witness in the "Assize Court Rolls of Lancashire," during the reign of King Henry III, known as "The Frenchman," 1216-1272. Roger de Linton can be found in these same rolls, but the two family are connected in same court cases.

Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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