Carolina Hallmans - Part 3 More light has been thrown on the origin and history of this surname bv ProFessor Lee R. Gandee, whose researches and whose analyses of Heilman Hallman-Holman data have contributed so greatly to the preparation of this family history. Gratefully we insert his treatment of the surmane. THE HALLMAN FANIILY NAME AND BACKGROUND By LEE R. GANDEE "For over a hundred years the spelling of the family name as *Hallman* has been standard among literate members. It may seem strange to learn that it was ever anything else. Nevertheless, in earlier records, a wide range (If spelling is found, and the signature of the first immigrant of the three whose offspring comprise the family recorded here, is written *Haillman*. Thus he signed the Oath of Allegiance to the British Crown in Philadelphia in I736. However. his name was written Heylman on the ship list of the Harle. The sound of both is the same as that *Heilman*, and no doubt can exist that Heilman or Heilmann was the original correct spelling. "In Volume VII (1916-19) of *Lebanon County Historical Papers*, an article 'The Name Heilman in European, American. and Lebanon County History" by Dr. S. P. Heilman, M . D., of Pennsylvania, tells the origin the name, and mentions the occurrence in Europe since very early times. Citing E. Alberus *Deutsches* Worterbuch, this writer shows the name to derive from hilfman, a helping man, a heilbringender Mann or healing-bringer. Thus it appears that the name was first given to indicate that the bearer was a doctor or physician and when surnames became hereditary the children of any man who had been called a Heilman or doctor might keep the name. Because doctors are found wherever there are people, it can be assumed that families of Heilmanns sprang up in many parts of Germany. Nevertheless, by the early Middle Ages, the name was recognized as Franconian, and there is on room for doubt that the Heilmans who emigrated to America in the 18th century derived from those living a thousand years earlier in Franconia. "Franconia was a development of the Ancient Frankish Empire of Charlesmagne. Situated on the Rhine River, this area of South Germany had been peopled by various Germanic tribes, whose blood probably mingled with that of previous inhabitants, and with that of Celts and Germans. It was a rich land, well suited to all types of agriculture. famed for its orchards, vineyards, and grain. After the formation of the Holy Roman Empire, Franconia formed an important part of it (one of four Dukedoms), and by the eighteenth century, it was broken up into smaller states, among them the Palatinate, Baden, and Wurttenberg. "From the earliest times, Heilmans belonged to the Order of Franconian Knighthood; the name was enrolled in the genealogical register of the German Nobility, and references to individual Heilmans are found in fragments of history for more than a thousand years before 1305 A. D. when one Veit der Heilman was granted the first surviving Heilman coat of arms by the Emperor Albrecht. This, however, is not the one called 'The true Heilman Arms' as it appears in the Register of the Holy Roman Empire, from whence Julius F. Sachse (25th President of the Pennsylvania German Society) secured, through the assistance of lie American Ambassador in Vienna, a photographic copy of an original plate, engraved before 1667, though the Arms were in the seventeenth century already in use a hundred years or more. They refer to an obscure fact of history, practically unknown to most students namely, that Germans played a major role during the reign of Charles V, in the explorations and conquests of Spain. "Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire (Charles I of Spain) was a Hapsburg. Born in what is now Belgium in Ghent, Charles spoke Flemish and, German himself, showed preference to his Imperial subjects over those of Spain, whose language he never learned, and whose nobles he never trusted. Thus, when the conquest of the area now Venezuela was undertaken the group engaged in it was made up largely of German adventurers, mostly from Franconia or 'Franken, who were called Welzers. Venezuela itself was known briefly as Welzerland, and it was to some Heilman in this Welzer group that 'The true Heilman Arms' was granted, sometime between 1525 and 1550 A.D. "In two respects the Heilman Arms is unique. It is the only Arms ever granted by the Holy Roman Empire showing the figure of an American Indian Cacique, and it is the first one granted by any government or known in Heraldry, using the American Indian as its device. The Indian is a Carib, not the familiar North American Indian, and the Arms depicts him wearing a plumed headdress and feathered skirt, his face turned to his right, his right arm extended, holding an arrow. The Indian is colored copper, and stands upon a green mound. The background of the Arms is gold, and the headdress, skirt, and arrow feathered silver, red, and blue. The mantling is gold and black, and the crest shows a closed helmet, in natural colors, marked with the Cross of the Knights of Malta, above which the same Indian is shown from the waist up. There can be no question that the Arms were granted some Welzer Heilman for defeating or securing the submission of a Carib chieftain in Venezuela.