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On these pages you can find details about the Hemingway One-Name Study that I am undertaking. The site is intended to assist those with Hemingway connections or interests. It describes my research into the name and its many variants and provides details about my own line and those that I have researched or that others have asked me to publish. This is a venture that I have tackled with a great deal of support from others who have taken the time and trouble to exchange information with me. If you have any Hemingway (or variants) interest, I would love to hear from you.

The site contains a wide variety of information about Hemingways, describes the progress with the Hemingway DNA Project and details of the Gatherings that are planned or have been held. There is a guestbook where you can leave information or comments for others about your own research.

I know many people get quite upset if their name gets spelt wrongly. The thing is, this is how most of the current variants have come about. My own father's birth certificate has two spellings on the one certificate for instance (Hemingway & Hemmingway).

Over the years I have come across 117 spelling variations or close variants - some I think you would agree are just simple spelling errors that have been promulgated and some are more likely longer term mutations. See Hemingway Variants below.

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Hemingway Variants

Most people are aware of the usual Hemingway, Hemmingway & Hemmenway names and many seem to believe that there is no connection between them. Having seen on my own father's birth certificate two spellings, I am satisfied that you cannot robustly state, "My name only has one "m" and therefore I cannot be related to..."

In the attached table there are 125 spelling variations. Some of these are true variants that are connected to the core Hem(m)ingway & Hem(m)enway spellings, but I accept that the majority are what we would nowadays call "typos". I also accept that many might not be variants, but I have not seen evidence that they truly exist as family names in their own right. I welcome feedback on this subject.

Emingway, Emmingway, Emingwey, Emmingwey, Emmyngway, Emyngway, Emmyngwey, Emyngwey, Haiming, Hamengway, Haming, Haminga, Haminge, Hamingham, Hamings, Hamingway, Haminway, Hamming, Hamminga, Hammingham, Haningway, Hayming, Heaming, Heeming, Heiming, Hemimgway, Heming, Heminga, Hemingan, Hemingay, Heminge, Heminges, Hemingeway, Hemingf, Hemingg, Hemingham, Heminghaus, Heminghay, Heminghem, Heminghway, Hemingi, Hemingingway, Hemingkemp, Heminglay, Hemingley, Hemingly, Hemingoray, Hemingray, Hemingre, Hemingreay, Hemingrey, Hemingry, Hemings, Hemingsby, Hemingsly, Hemingsway, Heminguy, Hemingwaie, Hemingwaye, Hemingways, Hemingwel, Hemingwell, Hemingwey, Hemingwod, Hemingwood, Hemingworth, Hemingwray, Hemingwy, Hemingwya, Hemingwzy, Hemingy, Hemingyay, Heminhway, Heminngs, Heminsway, Heminway, Heminways, Heminwey, Hemiway, Hemming, Hemminga, Hemmingan, Hemmingay, Hemminge, Hemminges, Hemmingf, Hemmingg, Hemmingham, Hemminghay, Hemmingley, Hemmingly, Hemmingrey, Hemmingry, Hemmings, Hemmingsway, Hemmingway, Hemmingwray, Hemmingyay, Hemminngs, Hemminway, Hemmiway, Hemmngway, Hemmyng, Hemmyngway, Hemngway, Hemningway, Hemongway, Hemying, Hemyng, Hemynge, Hemyngeway, Hemyngway, Hemyngwaye, Hemyngwey, Heningway, Henningway, Hieminga, Homingway, Humingway, Hummingway, Hyemingway, Hymingway, Hymmingway, Hymmyngway, Hymyngway

John Hemingway (Emmyngwey) - Royal Apothecary

I’m quite intrigued to find out more about John Hemingway (Emmyngwey) who is described as a Royal Apothecary[1] to Henry VIII from 1531 and who continued in the role until 1564 having also served Edward VI and Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth granted a lease of 30 years for Santingley (Santyngley) Grange and lands in 1562 to John Hemingway[2].

1. Calendar of Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
2. Calendar of Patent Rolls 1550-63 pp245-6

Santingley Grange was / is a hall or farm between Ryhill and Crofton approx 5 miles South East of Wakefield. I haven't yet found an early map but the image above is a map extract from OS map surveyed 1849 and published 1852.

Spotlight on a Brick Wall

What happened to Joseph Fergus O'Conner Hemingway?
Linda Wyatt writes : Joseph Fergus O'Conner Hemingway c 31 July 1842 Dewsbury, son of Michael Hemingway and Mary Howroyd was living with his parents on the 1851 and 1861 Dewsbury Census. I then found him on the 1871 All Saints, Northumberland Census. Joseph was living with his "wife" Margaret at what looks like 13 Carliol Sq in the Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the Ward of East All Saints. Joseph's occupation is stated as a stonemason. This fits as the family were Stonemasons. I have hunted marriage records but still can't find his marriage to Margaret. I have also searched all Census from 1881 with no luck in finding him or his "wife" Margaret.

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Derivation of the name

Dictionary of Surnames, Hanks & Hodges, Oxford, 1998
HEMINGWAY English (West Yorks) : apparently a habitation name from an unidentified minor place in West Yorkshire, probably in the parish of Halifax to judge by the distribution of early occurrences of the surname. The placename is from the personal name Hemming + ME wey way, path (OE weg). Var HEMMINGWAY

HEMMING English (chiefly West Midlands), Danish / Norwegian and Swedish : from the ON personal name Heming r, originally a pat r from a short form of any of the various cpd personal names with a first element heim home.

A Dictionary of English Surnames, Reaney & Wilson, Routledge, Third Edition 1991

HEMINGWAY, HEMMINGWAY - John de Hemyngway, William Hemyngway 1379 PTY; Richard de Hemmyngway 1309 Wakefield; Robert Hemyngwaye 1561 Pat (Y). "Dweller by Hemming's path", from an unidentified minor place, probably in West Yorkshire.

HEMMING, HEMMINGS - Hemmingus 1066 ICC; Hemming de Welga 1166 P (Ess); Walter, William Hemming 1170 P (So), 1221 AssWo. ON Hem(m)ingr ODa Hem(m)ing.

A Dictionary of English & Welsh Surnames with special American Instances, Charles Wareing Bardsley MA, Genealogical Publishing Company 1969
HEMINGWAY, HEMMINGWAY, HEMMAWAY, HEMINWAY - Local, "of Hemingway," ie the road that led to Hemming's house; v. Hemming (cf Hemingfield, a village near Wombwell, Yorkshire). Representatives of this name will be met with in nearly every town and village in the West Riding of Yorkshire. I have not discovered the precise spot. Two of the individuals referred to infra lived in Southowram. Thomas Emyngway, 1379 PT Yorks p192. Willelmus Hemyngway, 1379: ibid. p187. Johannes Hemyngway, 1379: ibid. 1790 Married - Henry Fletcher and Elinor Hemingway: St George Hanover Square ii 39. 1800 - Thomas Heminway and Eliz. Ashley: ibid. p213. West Riding Dir., 10, 3, 0, 0; MDB (Co Cambridge, 0, 0, 1, 0; New York, 3, 1, 0, 3.

HEMMING, HEMMINGS - Bapt. "the son of hemming." "Hemming, a Danish personal name" (Lower). The Hundred Rolls prove the name to have become well established in the 13th Century; cf the local Hemingborough in the dioc. of York, Hemingby (Lincoln), Hemingford Grey (Ely), Heminghall (Norwich), Hemingston (ibid), Hemington Exeter, Bath & Wells), Peterborough): v. Henning. Henry Hemmeng, co Suff, 1273. A. John Hemming co Oxford ibid. John Hemmyng co Kent, ibid. Robertus Hemmyng 1379, PT Yorks p41. 1574 Buried Jane dau Thomas Hemynges: St Dionis Blackchurch, p193. 1579-80 Married - Thomas Prestone and Elizabeth Hemmyng : ibid p9. London, 15, 7; Philadelphia, 12, 1.

English Surname Series, Vol. 1 : West Riding of Yorkshire

HEMINGWAY - The origin is clearly local and probably a lost place in Halifax Parish eg. 1307 Richard De Hemnygway (Hipperholme) Court Rolls of Wakefield, 1379 John de Hemyngway (Poll Tax Returns West Riding of Yorkshire 1379 YAS). Later association with "wray" eg. 1581 Robert Hemingwray (Keighley Parish Register) lead to variant spellings which have been used to explain the origin.

Surnames and Genealogy : A New Approach, George Redmonds, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1997

HEMINGWAY - It derives from a minor locality in either Hipperholme or Southowram, which cannot now be identified. It became very numerous in the Calder Valley between Brighouse and Dewsbury. 1309 Richard de Hemyngway, Hipperholme (YAS36, 1379, William Hemyngway, Southowram (PTY), 1474, John Hemmyngway, Southowram (YAS39), 1545, Richard Hemyngwey, Northowram (Th11)

Yorkshire Surname Series : Bradford and District, George Redmonds, 1990

HEMINGWAY - From a minor locality in either Hipperholme or Southowram which cannot now be identified. The Scandinavian personal name Hemingr was still in use c1300 and the meaning of the place-name was probably Hemingr's way. The surname is evidenced from the 14th century, ramified initially in Southowram and soon spread to Birstall and Dewsbury.

  • 1309 Richard de Hemmyngway (Hipperholme) Wakefield Court Rolls
  • 1379 William Hemyngway (Southowram) The Returns of the Poll Tax for the West Riding
  • 1474 John Hemmyngway (Southowram) Yorkshire Deeds, 10 volumes
  • 1545 Richard Hemyngwey (Northowram) Subsidy Rolls
  • 1641 Robert Hemingway (Bradford) The Protestation Returns (1641) held in the House of Lords Record Office

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    What happened to Joseph Fergus O'Conner Hemingway?
    Linda Wyatt writes : Joseph Fergus O'Conner Hemingway c 31 July 1842 Dewsbury, son of Michael Hemingway and Mary Howroyd was living with his parents on the 1851 and 1861 Dewsbury Census. I then found him on the 1871 All Saints, Northumberland Census. Joseph was living with his "wife" Margaret at what looks like 13 Carliol Sq in the Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the Ward of East All Saints. Joseph's occupation is stated as a stonemason. This fits as the family were Stonemasons. I have hunted marriage records but still can't find his marriage to Margaret. I have also searched all Census from 1881 with no luck in finding him or his "wife" Margaret.

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