Keynes family

The Keynes family (/ˈkeɪnz/ KAYNZ) is an English family that has included several notable economists, writers, and actors, including the economist John Maynard Keynes.

Family tree of modern Keynes family

Keynes family tree

John Neville Keynes

Florence Ada Brown

Lydia Lopokova

John Maynard Keynes

Geoffrey Langdon Keynes

Margaret Elizabeth Darwin

Margaret Keynes

Archibald Hill

Anne Pinsent Adrian

Richard Darwin Keynes

Zelfa Cecil Hourani

Laura Keynes^[1]

History

The English surname Keynes is derived from a Norman place name, either Cahagnes (Calvados) or Cahaignes (Eure), which are documented as places of origin of people of this name^[2] or possibly also from similar placenames not so documented.

The earliest documented person in England bearing the name was William de Cahaignes from Normandy who was born around 1035. Of another Norman William de Cahaignes (born around 1060 and probably his son), Katharine Keats-Rohan writes:- "Norman, from Cahaignes, Calvados, arr. Vire, cant. Aunay-sur-Odon.^[3] Major tenant of Robert, Count of Mortain (half-brother of William the Conqueror) in several Domesday counties. He was Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1086, and again in the early years of Henry I. His widow Adelicia made a grant for his soul to Lewes priory, with the assent of their son Hugh (Mon. Ang. v,14). His lands were divided between his three sons, of whom Hugh held the forest of Northamptonshire in 1129/30." ^[4]

Surname derivatives

Surname variants include "Koine", "De Keynes", "Keynes", "de Cayenes", "Caynes", "Caines", "Cheyney", "Cheney", "Chaney", "Chaineis", "Cahaignes", "Casneto", "Caisned", "Casineto".^[2]

Places in England bearing the name Keynes

Name "Middelton Keynes", from Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas, 1461^[5]

The following places were named after the de Cahaignes or Keynes family who held many manors in the years following the Norman Conquest:

Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire
Coombe Keynes, Dorset
Horsted Keynes, West Sussex
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (derived from the original Milton Keynes)
Somerford Keynes, Gloucestershire

Notable persons surnamed Keynes

See Keynes (disambiguation).

References

^ West, Ed (13 June 2013). "Descendant of Charles Darwin becomes a Catholic apologist". CatholicHerald.co.uk. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
^ ^a ^b P.H. Reaney, 1997. Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd edn). Oxford: OUP
^ although in fact the place in Calvados is Cahagnes
^ Keats-Rohan. "Domesday people,page 472". Archived from the original on 2008-01-10. Retrieved 2006-12-26.
^ "Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; 1461 (CP40/800)". Anglo-American Legal Tradition. University of Houston. 1461. Archived from the original on 31 January 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022. See last paragraph, at the start of line 5, "Middelton Keynes"

Sources

Keats-Rohan, Katherine S. B. Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166. 2v. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999.

External links

[1] West, Ed (13 June 2013). "Descendant of Charles Darwin becomes a Catholic apologist". CatholicHerald.co.uk. Retrieved 18 April 2018.

[reaney-2] P.H. Reaney, 1997. Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd edn). Oxford: OUP

[3] though in fact the place in Calvados is Cahagnes

[4] Keats-Rohan. "Domesday people,page 472". Archived from the original on 2008-01-10. Retrieved 2006-12-26.

[CP40/800-5] "Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; 1461 (CP40/800)". Anglo-American Legal Tradition. University of Houston. 1461. Archived from the original on 31 January 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022. See last paragraph, at the start of line 5, "Middelton Keynes"

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