This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hayman/Hyndman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WOC.2ACE/3002 Message Board Post: I would like to start by posting a question. Does anyone know the difference between Hayman and Hyndman? Our name was Hayman but discovered recently that only once in Scotland was it spelled Hayman (no wonder I could not find records). The rest of the time it was Hyndman. It was Hayman in Canada. Records indicate Hayman is British and Hyndman is German to Holland to Ireland to Scotland. Are there two distict families or not? I am descended from a William Hayman who was born in the Kintyre area of Argyll and married Euphemia Gillies. We believe that he came to Pictou, NS about 1849 but have no proof. His gravestone in Westville, NS, Canada says he was born in 1816 but it might have been 1814.We are trying to connect his family. There was an Alexander Hyndman born Feb. 8, 1828 in Killean, Argyll who was also in Pictou County and his parents were Alexander Hyndman and Mary McKinlay. They were married in Killean, Argyll on Aug. 7, 1806. This Alexander and Mary also h! ad the William who I believe is my g g grandfather who was born May 14, 1814 in Killean. This would make Alexander and William brothers and the elder Alexander their father. According to the census records in 1871 there is a John who must have also been a brother of the elder Alexander or a brother of the other Alexander and William. There is a Mary and a baby Alexander. We have traced the baby Alexander but not the child Robert or the child John. Are the names familiar to anyone. We are also looking for the father of the elder Alexander and William and it appears it might be a William. Although we think we are the Shipness area family; would we have come from England or Ireland? Can anyone help? C. Wood