Haywood Name Study

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About the Project

This Name is also registered with the Guild of One Name Studies.

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

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual team studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England HAYWOODs), by time period (18th Century HAYWOODs), or by topic (HAYWOOD DNA, HAYWOOD Occupations, HAYWOOD 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 HAYWOOD Name Study, first start out by browsing our current teams and 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/research page, and then dive right in!

If a team or research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Ros Haywood for assistance.

Teams and Topics

Heywood of Bolton area

Membership

• Bruce Haywood
• Jane Peppler
• Ruth Ogilvy

Research Pages

• List of HAYWOODs on Wikitree
• G2G feed of questions tagged "Haywood"
• Orphaned HAYWOOD profiles on WikiTree
• Unsourced HAYWOOD profiles on WikiTree
• Unconnected HAYWOOD profiles on WikiTree
• See the Haywoods and Heywoods in the 1881 census
• Haywood One Name Study on Guild website

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Related Surnames and Surname Variants

• Heywood
• Hayward
• Heyward
• Heawood

Meaning and Origin

This interesting name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is locational from any of the various places so called in Herefordshire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire. The name derives from the Middle English "hay", a development of the Olde English pre 7th Century "gehaeg" or "hege", meaning "enclosure", plus "wude", wood, hence "enclosed wood". It was a common practice in the Middle Ages for areas of woodland to be fenced off as hunting grounds for the nobility. Great and Little Haywood in Staffordshire were recorded as "Haiwode" in the Domesday Book of 1086, and as "Heywode" in 1279. The surname was first recorded at the end of the 12th Century (see below). One Adam de Heyuuode appears as a witness in the Assize Court Rolls for Lancashire in 1246. John Haywood married Joane Tynnyswoode on May 15th 1547, in St. Mary Magdalene, Old Fish Street, London. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Anselm de Haiwod, which was dated circa 1199, in the "Chartulary of the Priory of St. Thomas the Martyr", Staffordshire, during the reign of King Richard I, known as "The Lionheart", 1189 - 1199. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop", often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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Recorded in the spellings of Hayward, Haward, and Heyward, this is an English surname. It originates from the pre 7th Century words "hege" meaning hedge or fence, plus "weard", a watch or guardian. It was an occupational status surname for a person employed on an estate or settlement, to check and arrange the repair of all the fences and walls, to prevent unauthorised access to the royal hunting parks by poachers, and to deter cattle from breaking through into the arable lands and destroying crops. The surname is first recorded in the latter half of the 11th Century (see below), and other early examples include: Richard Haiward, who is recorded in the 1166 Pipe Rolls of Norfolk, and Alicia le Heyward, which is an interesting example of early job parity, who appears in the Hundred Rolls of Huntingdonshire, dated 1273. In 1379, Robertus Hayward was recorded in the Poll Tax Returns of Yorkshire. It is interesting to note that in mid 17th Century Records of Norfolk and other records thereafter, the name is synonymous with Howard - William Heyward or Howard, Sheriff of Norwich (1657), and Edward Howard or Heyward (1663), donor of three pounds per annum to St. Swithin's Church, Norwich. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Godric Heiuuard, which was dated circa 1095, in the registers of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. This was during the reign of King William II of England, 1087 - 1100. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was sometimes known as Poll Tax.

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Early Namebearers

• Anselm de Haiwod, about 1199 in Saint Thomas Priory Chartulary (Staffs)
• Adam de Heyuuode, 1246 in Assize Rolls (Lancs)
• Arnold de Hewode, 1275 in Hundred Rolls (Wilts)
• Johanna de Haywode, 1379 in Poll Tax (Appleby Parva, Leics)
• John Heywode, 1471 in Feet of Fines (Lincs)
• Oliverus Heawood, 1597 in Parish Registers (Barrow, Cheshire)
• Radulpho Hayword, 1379 in Poll Tax (Thornton, Leics)
• Robert Haywood, 1614 in Parish Registers (Saint Lawrence, Godmersham, Kent)
• Robertus Haiwod, 1381 in Poll Tax (Queniborough, Leics)
  

Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Distinguished members of the family include

• Sir John Hayward, a noted Elizabethan historian;
• John Heywood (c. 1497-1580), an English poet, friend of Sir Thomas More, and a court musician and entertainer for Henry VII, Edward VI, and Queen Mary;
• Thomas Heywood (c.1570-1641), an English dramatist best known for "A Woman Killed with Kindness" and others;

There were two gentry Heywood lines in Lancashire. Adam de Bury granted all his lands in Eywood (in Heap township, Bury parish) to Peter de Eywood around 1170, or 1270. The Eywoods added an H and entered the Most Boring Gentry contest. They handed down the manor father to son for 500 years without ever getting knighted or marrying anybody interesting.

A younger son arrested Guy Fawkes in the cellars (Peter Heywood JP 1585-1640).

They sold up after relocating to the Isle of Man. One of them (Peter Heywood) had married a girl (Alice Greenhalgh) whose father became the Governor and passed the job on.

The last of the line was on the Bounty and may have descendants in Tahiti:

• Thomas Hayward, Bligh's third lieutenant, midshipman, supported Captain Bligh, returned to England, later drowned in China Sea
• Peter Heywood, acting midshipman, kept on board against his will, later distinguished naval career

The other line goes back to a John Heywood of Heywood Mill in Bolton parish around 1550. They might be descendants of the Bury clan, or they might not. The senior surviving branch became non-conformist preachers. A younger brother, also a vicar, spawned a line of merchants, slave-traders, bankers and baronets.
(G2G comment by R J Horace 9 July 2017)

Notable Namebearers

living or possibly-living individuals are not included

• Adam Haywood (1874-1932), English footballer
• "Big" Bill Haywood, (1869–1928), American union organizer
• Sir Charles Hayward (1892-1983), English investor and philanthropist
• Eliza Haywood (1693–1756), English writer, actress and publisher
• Esme Haywood (1900–1985), English cricketer
• Garfield Thomas Haywood (1880–1931) African-American pastor and hymnwriter
• Harry Haywood (1898–1985), African American communist
• Sir Jack Hayward (1923-2015), president of Wolverhampton Wanderers football club
• Jasper Heywood (1535-1598), English Jesuit priest and translator
• John Haywood (1754–1827), North Carolina state treasurer
• John Heywood (1497-1578), English writer
• John Haywood (1762–1826), Tennessee judge and historian
• John Haywood (1878-1963), English cricketer
• John Heywood, member of parliament for Lancaster in 1554
• John B. Heywood, US photographer, 19th century
• John D. Heywood, US photographer, 19th century
• John Pemberton Heywood (1803–1877), banker from Liverpool, England
• Sir John Hayward (c. 1560–1627), English historian and politician
• John Hayward (1819–1885), Newfoundland politician and judge
• John Hayward (c. 1355–1407), MP for Bridport, 1373–1401
• John Hayward, MP for Dorchester, 1558
• Sir John Hayward (c. 1591–1636), English politician, MP for Bridgnorth and Saltash
• John Hayward (c. 1571–1631), MP for Bletchingley
• John Hayward (1808–1891), Exeter-based Gothic revival architect
• Sir John Davy Hayward (1905–1965), English editor
• John T. Hayward (1908–1999), U.S. naval aviator and nuclear physicist
• John William Hayward (1844–1913), Newfoundland artist and inventor
• Oliver Heywood (1630-1702), excommunicated nonconformist preacher
• Peter Heywood (1772-1831), acting midshipman on the Bounty
• Robert Heywood (1633), Governor of the Isle of Man
• Thomas Heywood (1570-1641), English playwright
• William Henry Haywood, Jr (1801–1852), American U.S. senator

Migration

19th century migrants to Australia

• Mr. Thomas Haywood, British convict who was convicted in Sussex, England for life, transported aboard the "Calcutta" in February 1803, arriving in New South Wales, Australia
• Mr. William Haywood, English convict who was convicted in Buckinghamshire, England for 14 years , transported aboard the "Duke of Portland" in January 1807, arriving in New South Wales, Australia
• Mr. Daniel Haywood, (Laywood), British Convict who was convicted in Stafford, Staffordshire, England for 7 years, transported aboard the " Dunvegan Castle" on 13th March 1830, arriving in New South Wales, Australia
• Mr. Joseph Haywood, English convict who was convicted in West Riding, Yorkshire, England for 7 years, transported aboard the "Earl Grey" on 27th July 1838, arriving in New South Wales, Australia
• Thomas Haywood, English convict from Lancaster, who was transported aboard the "Anson" on September 23, 1843, settling in Van Diemen's Land, Australia

19th century migrants to New Zealand

• Mr. Haywood, British settler travelling from London aboard the ship "William Stoveld" arriving in Auckland, New Zealand on 27th November 1843
• Mr. Neame Haywood, (b. 1823), aged 35, British mariner travelling from Gravesend aboard the ship "Mystery" arriving in Lyttelton, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand on 29th March 1859
• Mrs. Susan Haywood, (b. 1828), aged 30, British settler travelling from Gravesend aboard the ship "Mystery" arriving in Lyttelton, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand on 29th March 1859
• Mr. Harry Haywood, (b. 1845), aged 13, British boatman travelling from Gravesend aboard the ship "Mystery" arriving in Lyttelton, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand on 29th March 1859
• Mr. Thomas Haywood, (b. 1852), aged 6, British settler travelling from Gravesend aboard the ship "Mystery" arriving in Lyttelton, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand on 29th March 1859

18th century migrants to Canada

• Joseph Haywood, who landed in Nova Scotia in 1749

17th century migrants to West Indies

• John Haywood, who settled in Barbados in 1680 with his wife, children, and servants

Migration to the United States

Haywood Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

• Benjamin Haywood, who landed in San Francisco, California in 1850
• Miss L A Haywood, who arrived in San Francisco, California in 1851
• J Haywood, who arrived in San Francisco, California in 1855
• James Haywood, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1866
• John Haywood, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1867

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Haywood Settlers in America in the 18th Century

• Ralph Haywood, who landed in Virginia in 1723

Haywood Settlers in America in the 17th Century

• Robert Haywood, who landed in Virginia in 1638
• Susan Haywood, who arrived in Maryland in 1665
• Thomas Haywood, who landed in Maryland in 1665
• Raphael Haywood, who arrived in Maryland in 1666
• Thomas Haywood, who settled in Pennsylvania in 1682