Payn

Payn
This distinguished surname, with over thirty Coats of Arms, and several entries in the "Dictionary of National Biography", is of early medieval English origin, and derives from the Old French male given name "Paien", itself coming from the Latin "Paganus". The Latin name is a derivative of "pagus", outlying village, and meant at first a rustic, then a civilian as opposed to a soldier, and finally a heathen (one not enrolled in the army of Christ). In the early Middle Ages, Paien was popular as a personal name, due to the romantic associations of its early meaning of "rustic, country-dweller", and examples of same include: Edmund filius (son of) Pagen, noted in the Domesday Book of 1086 for Somerset, and Reginaldus filius Pain, entered in the 1185 Knights' Templars Records of Lincolnshire. In 1220 one, William Paen was recorded in the Curia Regis Rolls of Somerset, and a Ralph Payn appears in Records of Cambridgeshire, dated 1221. Notable 15th Century namebearers include: Peter Payne, principal of St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, 1410-1414, and John Payne, Master of the Rolls in Ireland (1496). In April 1635, William Payne, aged 37, together with his wife Anna, and children William, Anna, Jo, and Daniell, aged respectively 10, 5 and 3 years, and 8 weeks, embarked from London on the ship "Increase" bound for New England. They were among the earliest recorded bearers of the name to settle in America. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John Pain, which was dated 1190, in the "Pipe Rolls of Worcestershire", during the reign of King Richard 1, known as "Richard 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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  • payn — payn, e obs. ff. pain, pane; var. payen Obs …   Useful english dictionary

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  • Payn's Place —    On the west side of Aldersgate Street at No. 142, opposite Jewin Street (Lockie, 1816).    Not named in the maps …   Dictionary of London

  • PAYN, JAMES —    English novelist, born at Cheltenham; edited Chambers s Journal and Cornhill Magazine; his novels were numerous and of average quality, Lost Sir Massingberd and By Proxy among the most successful (1830 1899) …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Payn, James — (1830 1898)    Novelist, s. of an official in the Thames Commission, ed. at Eton, Woolwich, and Camb. He was a regular contributor to Household Words and to Chambers s Journal, of which he was ed. 1859 74, and in which several of his works first… …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

  • Graham Payn — Nacimiento 25 de abril de 1918 …   Wikipedia Español

  • Graham Payn — (25 April 1918 ndash; 4 November 2005) was born in Pietermaritzburg in South Africa. He was a British actor and singer, gay and the life partner of the late Sir Noel Coward.Payn moved with his family to England when he was about ten years old… …   Wikipedia

  • Graham Payn — (* 25. April 1918 in Pietermaritzburg, Südafrika; † 4. November 2005 in der Schweiz) war ein südafrikanisch britischer Schauspieler, Komiker und Sänger. Schon mit 13 spielte er im Palladium den Curly in Peter Pan. 1932 trat er in Noel Cowards… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • James Payn — (February 28, 1830 March 25, 1898), English novelist, was born at Cheltenham, his father being clerk to the Thames Commissioners and treasurer to the county of Berkshire.He was educated at Eton, and afterwards entered the Military Academy at… …   Wikipedia

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