Baldwin Name Study

Surnames/tags: Baldwin Baldwine Baldewyne

About the Baldwin Name Study Project

The Baldwin Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Baldwin name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Baldwin name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Baldwins), by time period (18th Century Baldwins), or by topic (Baldwin DNA, Baldwin Occupations, Baldwin Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

How to Join

To join the Baldwin Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Carol Baldwin PhD RN for assistance.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

Membership

• Carol Baldwin PhD RN

Baldwin Name Meaning

English: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’ + wine ‘friend’, which was extremely popular among the Normans and in Flanders in the early Middle Ages. It was the personal name of the Crusader who in 1100 became the first Christian king of Jerusalem, and of four more Crusader kings of Jerusalem. It was also borne by Baldwin, Count of Flanders (1172–1205), leader of the Fourth Crusade, who became first Latin Emperor of Constantinople (1204). As an American surname it has absorbed Dutch spellings such as Boudewijn. HH, RW, DEB.Irish: surname adopted in Donegal by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Maolagáin (see Milligan), due to association of Gaelic maol ‘bald’, ‘hairless’ with English bald. ^[1]Notable persons with the surname Baldwin:^[2]

Baldwin Related Surnames and Surname Variants

• Baldin Balwin Baldwine Baldewine Baldwyne Baldewyne

Baldwin Y DNA Family Group on FTDNA

• Baldwin Y DNA Background: ^[3]

Adding your Ancestor

To add your ancestor to this study, simply include the following category to the Biography section of his or her profile:

[[Category: Baldwin_Name_Study ]]

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. We can always use help, especially with e-technology!

• John Baldwins of Pennsylvania

Baldwins from Buckinghamshire

• John Baldwin b. say 1415 at Aylesbury, Bucks
• John Baldewyn (aka Baldwin) b. say 1438 at Aylesbury, Bucks
• William Baldwin b. say 1441 at Aylesbury, Bucks
• Sir John Baldwin MP Kt b. say 1470 at Aylesbury, Bucks
• William Baldwin say 1500 Hayle, Bucks

Baldwins from Oxfordshire

• John Baldwin Sr. b. say 1657 at Hook Norton, Oxfordshire
• Francis Baldwin b. 20 April 1667 at Hook Norton, Oxfordshire
• Thomas Baldwin (aka Baldwine) b. 1 Nov1657 at Hook Norton, Oxfordshire

Baldwins in the Puritan Great Migration (PGM)

St Michael & All Angels, Buckinghamshire recognizes PGM Baldwins

• Henry Baldwin of Woburn & Phebe Richardson
• Sylvester Baldwin Jr. & Sarah Bryan
• Sarah Baldwin and Hon. Benjamin Fenn
• Richard Baldwin & Elizabeth Alsop
• Martha Baldwin
• Ruth Baldwin
• John Baldwin of Stonington

The Baldwin Apple

According to S. A. Beach's Apples of New York, the Baldwin originated soon after 1740 as a chance seedling on the farm of Mr. John Ball of Wilmington, Massachusetts, and for about 40 years thereafter its cultivation was confined to that immediate neighborhood. The farm eventually came into the possession of a Mr. Butters, who gave the name Woodpecker to the apple because the tree was frequented by woodpeckers. The apple was long known locally as the Woodpecker or Pecker. It was also called the Butters. Deacon Samuel Thompson, a surveyor of Woburn, Massachusetts, brought it to the attention of Col. Loammi Baldwin of the same town, by whom it was propagated and more widely introduced in eastern Massachusetts. From Col. Baldwin's interest in the variety it came to be called the Baldwin.

Monument to the Baldwin Apple

A monument to the Baldwin apple now marks the location (on today's Chestnut street in Wilmington). The monument's inscription reads: This monument marks the site of the first Baldwin Apple Tree found growing wild near here. It fell in the gale of 1815. The apple first known as the Butters, Woodpecker or Pecker apple was named after Col. Loammi Baldwin of Woburn. Erected in 1895 by the Rumford Historical Association.

A harsh winter in 1934 wiped out many of the Baldwin apple orchards in New England. Its popularity as an eating apple waned, but some orchards were preserved for many years because of its desirability as a mixing apple for cider. However, the orchards have not been replaced when they played out. Baldwin Apples, unlike many apples, have long been prized for the making of hard cider. "West County Cider" makes Baldwin Cider from trees planted in the early 1900s. It is their most popular cider.[2] The apple is noted for its particularly small to medium size (ca. 6–8 cm), when compared to other apples like the Macintosh. It is an exceptionally hard apple and would remain remarkably free from blemishes and other blights with few pesticides being needed. Because of its hardness it shipped well without bruising and for a time was prized for this quality. Aside from cider making it was also known as an exceptionally good pie apple and due to its inherent hardness would maintain more crispness through the baking process than other apples would. Loammi Baldwin and John (Johnny Appleseed) Chapman were cousins.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_(name)
3. ↑ https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/baldwin/about/background
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_(apple)

Additional Resources

• Baldwin, Charles Candee. The Baldwin Genealogy from 1500 - 1881. Cleveland, OH: Leader Printing, 1881.