List members: Please welcome Tim Hinds of Rankin Inlet, NU. Tim, tell us how you get the surname Hinds from Rankin Inlet back to County Galway. Maybe some of us will connect along the way. This Hinds-L list has 34 members but most are listeners. Remember to visit the Hinds-L archives to search past messages to the list.. I'm pasting the directions below. If you run across Hinds info that is not your line just Copy and Paste it anyway and send it along for our archives. It does not hurt to send something twice. Again welcome, Tim, Nan Wolf Hinds-L Administrator [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------- Here is the address for searching by using a keyword or keywords. http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=HINDS-L ------------------------------------------------------- This address below is to search the Threaded Archives. You can search month by month. An ID and password is needed. I don't think one needs to be a Rootsweb member. If so - the dues are $12. per year. On this search mechanism leave the -L off the name of the list - just HINDS http://archiver.rootsweb.com/

Welcome Tim, I have some entries that might be of interest. They are below Nan's message. I would like to add that I believe that I may be descended from the James Hind of Chester County, PA. I am missing a link there to tie it all together. He is listed as being from Ireland and somewhere I have sources that say Galway if I could find them. Please be patient with my rambling. These are old notes of mine. Very personal in nature and I have only recently started letting others look at them - They may see what an idiot I really am. Clif Hinds HIND / HINDS / HINES TID BITS THE IRISH CONNECTION Irish Records by James G. Ryan [Concerning County Galway] A brief History The county of Galway is on the west coast and contains the city of Galway and the towns of Tuam, Ballinasloe, Athenry, and Loughrea. The east of the county is relatively good farmland while the west, the area known as Connemara, is rocky and barren. In this area, and on the offshore islands, particularly the Aran islands, the Irish language is still the everyday language. Before the redivision of the country into counties, the west of the county was the territory of Iar-Connacht. The major Gaelic families of the couunty were O'Halloran, O'Daly, O'Kelly, O'Flaherty, O'Malley, O'Madden, O'Fallon, O'Naughton, O'Mullaly, and O'Hynes. The town of Galway was a prominent trading port from early times. It was also reputed to be one of the landmarks in the ancient division of Ireland (in the second century A.D.) into the northely half, Leath-Cuin, controlled by Conn-Cead-Cathac, and the southerly Leath-Mogha, controlled by Eoghan, King of Munster. The fortunes of the town from earliest times have been documented in Hardiman's History of Galway. Irish names & Surnames by Rev Patrick Woulfe O'heroin -- O'Heine, O'Heyne, O'Hine, O'Hyne, Heines, Hynes, Hyndes, etc. The name of a Galway family who derive their descent from the celebrated Guaire Aidhne, King of Connacht in the 7th century, and for the space of six hundred years were the chief family of Ui Fiachrach Aidhne and lords of Aidhne, a district co-extensive with the diocese of Kilmacduagh. Maolpuanaro O'Heroin, Lord of Aidhne, who fell at Clontarf, in 1014, was the first person to bear the surname. There was also a family of the name formely of considerable importance seated in the neighbourhood of Caherconlish, Co. Limerick, but it is now almost extinct. The name is however still common in Galway and the adjoinging parts of County Clare. Guide to Irish Surnames by Edward Machysaght Heyne, O hEidhin. A leading sept of Aidhne. This name is now usually made Hynes. Irish Families, Their Names, Arms, and Origins by Edward Machysaght O'Heyne, Hynes. The rather commonplace surname Hines or Hynes is a modern form in English of the very distinguished name O'Heyne, in Irish. O'hEidhin. Descended from Guaire the Hospitable, King of Connacht. From the sevent century to the destruction ot the Gaelic order nearly a thousand years later the head of the O'Heynes was chief of territory south of Galway, barony of Kiltartan. This family shared with their kinsmen the O'Shaughnessys the Lordship of Aidhne, which comprised the country stretching from Gort to Oranmore. Mulroy O"Heyne, who was father-in-law of Brian Boru, was styled Lord of Aidhne. O'Heyne and O"Kelly commanded the forces of Connacht at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014. The Abbey of Kilmacduagh is called O'Heyne's Abbey. When the Anglo-Normans occupied considerable portions of County Galway in the thirteeth century, the O'Heynes and the O'Shaughnessys were left in posssession of large tracts of their ancient patrimony, and as late as 1878 the head of the family was in possession of 4,169 acres, near Ballinasloe, where his residence then was. In 1608 the O'Heynes are recorded as owning 8,640 acres in the northern part of Aidhne around Kinvarra. As might be expected the name is still found most plentifully in Counties Galway and Clare. Since the middle of the seventeenth century the O'Heynes have been chiefly notable as missionary priests. The most remarkable was Father john O'Heyne, O.P. (d. 1715), historian of the Dominican Order. The Coat of Arms for O'Heyne (Hynes) is described: Per pale indented or and gules two lions, rampant combatant counterchanged. Crest: A dexter arm armed embowed the hand grasping a sword all proper. IRISH PEDIGREES; the Origin and Stem of THE IRISH NATION, by John O'Hart HYNES, Arms: Ar. a chevron gu. betw. three demi lizards couped vert. AIDHNE, brother of Braon who is No. 107 on the "O'Clery" pedigree, was the ancestor of O'h-Eidhin: anglicized O'Heyne, Heyne, Hine, Hinds, Hynds, and Hynes. 107, Aidhne ("aidhne:" Irish, an advocate, a pleader): son of Congalach; a quo O'h-Eidhin 108. Giolla-na-Naomh: his son 109. Flann: his son 110. Connor: his son 111. Aodh (or Hugh): his son 112. Giollaceallach: his son 113 Goilla-na-Naomh: his son. 114. Owen: his son. 115. Shane (or John): his son 116. Hugh: his son 117. Donoch: his son Muirceartach (or Muriartach) O'Heyne: his son; had a brother named Owen. For several branches of this family, see "Tribes and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach;" which may be seen in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Volume II showed some of the family Hind in Ireland at the end of the 17th Century Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania 1682- 1750 by Myers indicates that "James Hind, wife Ruth, and daughter received 12 Mo 25 1716 (Please note that this was Christmas Day -my note Clif) 'from Moat Monthly Meeting, county Wicklow, Ireland." Immigration of Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania In Delaware County. Established in 1681. JAMES HIND, wife Ruth, and daughter, received 12 Mo. 25, 1716, from Moat Monthly Meeting, County West Meath, Ireland. I have another reference that lists this same James Hind as being from Galway, but I am unable to find it at present. [Clif Hinds] George Hines' in the Butler County, Pa., area. George Hines, son of Richard Hines, Sr., and Jane ___ of County Down, Ireland. He was born April 22, 1785 and died in 1843. [Source - unknown]. Also Scotland Knights of England Vol. 2, by W.A. Shaw HINDE, John (Hynde), Justice of the Common Pleas after 23 November 1545 (SCOTLAND). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com