Carolina Hallmans - Part 2 Another branch of the Heilman Hallmans-Holmans is the Carolina one. The oldest in age and the earliest in arrival in America was Andrew HalIman. The passenger list of the Ship Harle. Ralph Harle. Master, records his name as Andreas Heylmann. He himself, when he signed his name at the City Hall in Philadephia. where the Ship Harle had docked, did so as "Andreas Haillman". on the oath of allegiance and also on the oath of adjuration. two required oaths for other than English immigrants. These records speak for themselves; the Pennsylvania and the Carolina Hallmans and Holmans being discussed were originally Heillmann or some similar surname Haillmann, Heyllmann, or Heillmann, perhaps Hayllmann. They are all the same word in sound and in meaning; the German diphthongs "ai", "ay", "ci", and "ey" are identical in sound and in meaning. Hereafter, when giving the original surname, the short form Heilman will be used. The oldest appearance of Heilman known to this writer at this time was found in documents pertaining to a partnership with Johann Gutenberg in 1438 by two Heilman brothers. Andres and Anthonie. The Programme of the Eleventh Reunion of the Hallman Family Association of Canada meeting in Waterloo Park, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, quoted Reverend U. H. Heilman, Jonestown, Pennsylvania, as stating that his family records date back to 1305 to a Veit der Heilman, the founder of his family. Dr Fritz Braun, historian of Kaiserslautern, West Germany in a letter to E. B. Hallman of March 30, 1958, wrote: "Den altesten Nachweis des Namens heir in der Pfalz konnte ich bjsher fur das Jahr 1621 finden: Johann Jakob Heilmann. Ich habe aber bisher nicht die Geburt eines Andreas finden konnen." (The oldest appearance of the name here in the Palatinate I can find at present was for the year 1621: John Jacob Heilman. Up to the present I have not been able to find a record of the birth of an Andrew.) In a report of the Zwicky Genealogical Institute, Switzerland, also to E. B.Hallman, the following appears: "Heilmano von Biel (Bern) Stanivater dieses bedeutenden Gesichlechters war der aus Marburg geburtige Johann Christoff Heilman (Haylmann, Heylmann)". (Heilman of Biel (Bern) the ancestor of this distinguished citizen was a John Christopher Heilnian (Haylnann, Heylmann) who was born in Marburg) This surname may have originated independently in various localities. The meaning may have similarly varied. The Reverend U. H. Heilman, mentioned above, explains the origin as resulting from the calling of his ancestor Veit, known as Veit der Heilman, or Veit the physician, that being one of the meanings of Heilman, "Heil" is a German word, ancient in origin. meaning whole, sound, uninjured. Cognate with it there came into early England through the Anglo-Saxons the forms "hol" and "hal", followed later by words like whole, hale, healthy, holy. Whatever the original meaning of the surname may have been. the proper English form should have been Holman. This spelling was accepted by some Heilmans; others have retained Heilman in this abbreviated spelling. One branch, the Anthony Heilman of Pennsylvania, changed to Hallman, this is adopted by the Andrew Heilmans who came through Pennsylvania into Carolina.