Payne Name Study

Profile managers: One Name Studies WikiTree [send private message] and Tricia Aanderud [send private message]

About the Project

The Payne Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Payne 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 Payne 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 Payne's), by time period (18th Century Payne's), or by topic (Payne DNA, Payne Occupations, Payne 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.

See the related surnames and surname variants.

How to Join

To join the Payne Name Study, do the following:

1. Sign the honor code if you haven't already.

2. Add the Payne One Name Study sticker to your profile to show project affiliation:

... ... ... is a member of the Payne Name Study Project.

3. Browse our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests.

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

4. Add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help!

• Payne Name Study: Notables
• Payne Name Study: Coat of Arms
• Payne Name Study: Documented Genealogies
• List of Payne Profiles

• Finding family members in a specific area and determine how they are related?

Things to Do

Other things to do:

• Payne Profiles Not Linked to Global Tree
• Unsourced Payne Profiles

Origin of PAYNE name

The names Payne and Paine came to England during the Normal conquest. In Normandy of 1066, the Latin world Paganus meant villager. Since villagers resisted conversion to Christianity longer than did city dwellers, it also came to mean “unbeliever” (today’s pagan.) Many have attempted to draw a loose connection with the Latin paganus = pagan due to the Old English word paien being derived from the Latin word Paganus, but there is no hard evidence to support this theory.

The surname Payne originates in France and is a variation of the name Payen (Payen; Payens). It is one of the most revered and ancient surnames of the noblesse families of France. The original family lived in Payen, Normandy, where they held family seats in Payen and Dauphine . During the Norman Conquest of England and the great migration, members of this family migrated to England.

Upon migrating to England, the Payn’s were then granted lands and a family seat in Sussex by Duke William Of Normandy for their distinguished assistance in the battle of Hastings. The first record of Paynes outside of France was in England in the Domesday Book completed in 1086, shortly after the Norman Conquest, including one Pagen who had land near Market Bosworth, the ancestral home of this lineage.

• Stephen Paine appears to be the first verifiable PAINE/PAINE to arrive in America in 1638.

• Robert Payne born in New York in 1789, moved to Ontario, Canada and married Jane Scott in 1826 in Brockville and had nine children there. See Lyon-Payne Tree at the Payne Name Study: Documented Genealogies artwork.

See "Payne Surname Origin and 1st Payne in America" for more details.

Links

• History of Payne Name
• FamilyTreeDNA, Payne Family History
• Payne Genealogy

Membership

• Tricia (Payne) Aanderud, Project Coordinator
• Michael McCarthy
• Anny Payne
• Beth Payne

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

• Paine