The purpose of this page is to share any thing strange or unknown concerning our family. Many times there are many interesting things that is not known but would be interesting if the information was made available. I'm sharing a few things below that I feel is not known by most of the family and would be interesting to know. Do you know something that might interest us conerning a ancestor or family member? Keep it clean, no dirty laundry.
Are Hinson and Henson the same with different spellings? Although they sound the same they are different and with different origins. As mentioned, our family name 'Hinson' is derived from 'son of Hink.' Henson, means 'son of Henne.' Henne is a diminutive of 'Henry' so Henson means 'son of Henry.' Both names are English or 'Saxon' names...but have different origins...different families. I have a link to the origin of Henson and Hinson on the references page to verify my research. Now am I saying that no one in the past has changed the spelling..for whatever reason? No, and have no way of knowing unless someone using that spelling has information or proof to provide. Some information has to be taken as given unless someone can prove otherwise, but there are possibilities.
Update: 7/15/2018 - Since I posted this to the website during my research for our family ancestors I did find that there were some alternative spellings used by our ancestors in England. For example, Lord Richard Allen Hynson, as you can see spelled his name 'Hynson.' If you look at the family tree page you will see that the great great grand children of Lord Richard Allen Hynson..particularly the children of Robert George Hanson, another alternate spelling, his children's names include the spelling 'Hinson', 'Henson' and 'Hanson'. James Tobias Hinson's children's last names were spelled 'Hanson' thus kicking off another branch. The reason for this is unknown. As mentioned, after the Norman Conquest Sir names were put in use, even in the 15th century... pre Norman Conquest customs and habits of the Saxons still were practiced by the Saxons. So, I wanted to make note that the spellings of sir names although they have a rule for creating as I explained, also like all rules have exceptions.
Now, I mentioned curiosities on this page; here is one I hope someone can provide an answer for. Uncle Oris's full name was Oris Leonard Hinson. He signed his name OL Hinson. Now, note the middle name 'Leonard' which is initial 'L'...so ...what's the issue? I have grandma Hinson's bible with the births recorded there. In her bible Oris's name is 'Oris Lamonby Hinson.' Why did Grandma record his name as Lamonby and Uncle Oris went by Leonard? Well, I can tell you this. Great Grand pa Smith was from Liverpoole England (Oris's grandfather). His mother's maiden name was 'Lamonby.' That name originated in county Cumberland, England. Presently, it is part of Cumbria an administrative county; it is in the Northwest corner of England bordering Scotland. There was a village named Lamonby and the name translated means 'the farm of Lambin.' This is odd, sure there's a good reason, but I don't know what it is. Should anyone know, contact me. Click here to see the births page
Here is a postcard with a picture of a hotel in Seattle Washington that was built by our great grandmother Smith's father. This was great grandpa Edgar Soren Smith's wife...her maiden name was Bogardus. She was Dutch as I mentioned on the home page. Many in the family thought she was German but one of our cousins in South Carolina cleared that up for me, when I find the letter I will post it here on the site. You know the Dutch hate the Germans and from what I hear the feelings are mutual. If you click in the image it will open another page and enlarge so you can see grandmother Hinson's writing indicating that 'grandpa Bogardus built this hotel.' A point of interest, as mentioned above great grandpa Smith's name was Edgar as mentioned. Grandmother Hinson named uncle Edgar Haynes Hinson after him. I will elaborate more on this in another section. The name 'Haynes' is of interest also.
