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Hide History Early Origins Early History Spelling Variations Early Notables

Ireland United States Australia New Zealand West Indies

Contemporary Notables Related Stories Motto Citations

Hide History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England
Ireland

Hide is a name whose history is connected to the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from when the Hide family once lived at the hide or at the residence close by. Hide is a topographic surname, which was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. Habitation names form the other broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names. They were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Other local names are derived from the names of houses, manors, estates, regions, and entire counties.

Early Origins of the Hide family

The surname Hide was first found in Bedfordshire (Old English: Bedanfordscir), located in Southeast-central England. A hide is a feudal portion of land that was measured by the quality of land, not its size. In other words, a hide was so much land as "with its house and toft, right of common, and other appurtenances, was considered to be sufficient for the necessities of a family." 1

Urmston in Lancashire is a point of interest to the family. "A family of the local name is mentioned as holding lands here as early as the reign of King John. About the time of Henry IV, Raff Hyde married the heiress of Adam Urmston, and thus obtained the estate." 2

"Here [in Woodford, Wiltshire] was a palace of the bishops of Salisbury, but no traces of it are now visible. Charles II, after the battle of Worcester, was concealed in Heale House, in the parish, at that time the residence of the Hyde family." 2

Hyde in Cheshire was another ancient family seat. "So early as the reign of John, a part of the manor of Hyde was held by a family of the same name, of which the great Lord Chancellor Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, was a descendant; the remaining portion was acquired by them in the reign of Edward III." 2

Early History of the Hide family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Hide research. Another 170 words (12 lines of text) covering the years 1595, 1609, 1617, 1627, 1631, 1637, 1638, 1641, 1665, 1667, 1671, 1674, 1709, 1711, 1712, 1713 and 1890 are included under the topic Early Hide History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Hide Spelling Variations

Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Hide family name include Hyde, Hide and others.

Early Notables of the Hide family

Notables of this surname at this time include: Anne Hyde (1637-1671), Duchess of York and Albany as the first wife of James, Duke of York (later King James II and VII); Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon (1617-1667), an English peeress, the mother-in-law of James II of England; Henry Hyde 2nd Earl of Clarendon PC (1638-1709), an English aristocrat and politician; Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester KG PC (1641-1711), an English statesman and writer; Edward...
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Migration of the Hide family to Ireland

Some of the Hide family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Hide migration to the United States +

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Hide surname or a spelling variation of the name include:

Hide Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

John Hide who settled in New England in 1635 aboard the ship "James"
Richard Hide, who settled in Virginia in 1635
John Hide, who arrived in New England in 1635 3
Richard Hide, who arrived in Virginia in 1636 3
Samll Hide, who landed in Virginia in 1643 3
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Hide Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Joseph Hide, who landed in Virginia in 1701-1702 3
Sarah Hide, who arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1748-1749 3

Hide Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Benjamin Hide, aged 28, who landed in New York in 1801 3
Jonathan Hide, who arrived in Maryland in 1803 3
James Hide, who arrived in Maryland in 1834 3
James Hide, aged 22, who arrived in Key West, Fla in 1848 3
William Hide, who landed in Indiana in 1852 3

Hide Settlers in United States in the 20th Century

William Edgar Hide, aged 32, who landed in America from Hampshire, in 1905
Francis M. Hide, aged 17, who settled in America, in 1914
Lewis Hide, aged 24, who settled in America, in 1918
Walter Hide, aged 40, who immigrated to the United States, in 1918
Walter E. Hide, aged 40, who immigrated to America, in 1918
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Hide migration to Australia +

Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:

Hide Settlers in Australia in the 18th Century

Miss Mary Hide, (Blunn, Sarah), (b. 1779), aged 19, English convict who was convicted in Warwick, Warwickshire, England for 7 years for stealing, transported aboard the "Britannia III" on 18th July 1798, arriving in New South Wales, Australia, she died in 1864 4

Hide Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century

Mr. John Hide, English convict who was convicted in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England for 7 years, transported aboard the "Baring" in April 1815, arriving in New South Wales, Australia 5
George Hide, English convict from Bedford, who was transported aboard the "Albion" on May 29, 1828, settling in New South Wales, Australia 6
Mr. William Hide, English convict who was convicted in Somerset, England for 7 years, transported aboard the "Atlas" on 27th April 1833, arriving in Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land) 7
Hannah Hide, who arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship "Isabella Watson" in 1846 8
Hill Hide, aged Charles Orlando, who arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship "Isabella Watson" in 1846 8
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Hide migration to New Zealand +

Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include:

Hide Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century

James Hide, who landed in Nelson, New Zealand in 1842 aboard the ship Clifford
Mr. Thomas Hide, (b. 1814), aged 28, British agricultural labourer travelling from London and Plymouth aboard the ship "Thomas Sparks" arriving in Wellington, New Zealand on 31st January 1843, the ship stuck rocks of the coast of Cape of Good Hope delaying her landing by 2 months 9
Mrs. Jemima Hide, (b. 1814), aged 28, British settler travelling from London and Plymouth aboard the ship "Thomas Sparks" arriving in Wellington, New Zealand on 31st January 1843, the ship stuck rocks of the coast of Cape of Good Hope delaying her landing by 2 months 9
Miss Ann Hide, (b. 1837), aged 5, British settler travelling from London and Plymouth aboard the ship "Thomas Sparks" arriving in Wellington, New Zealand on 31st January 1843, the ship stuck rocks of the coast of Cape of Good Hope delaying her landing by 2 months 9
Mr. William Hide, (b. 1844), aged 18, British farm labourer travelling from London aboard the ship "Echunga" arriving in Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand on 24th December 1862 10
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Hide migration to West Indies +

The British first settled the British West Indies around 1604. They made many attempts but failed in some to establish settlements on the Islands including Saint Lucia and Grenada. By 1627 they had managed to establish settlements on St. Kitts (St. Christopher) and Barbados, but by 1641 the Spanish had moved in and destroyed some of these including those at Providence Island. The British continued to expand the settlements including setting the First Federation in the British West Indies by 1674; some of the islands include Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Island, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica and Belize then known as British Honduras. By the 1960's many of the islands became independent after the West Indies Federation which existed from 1958 to 1962 failed due to internal political conflicts. After this a number of Eastern Caribbean islands formed a free association. 11

Hide Settlers in West Indies in the 17th Century

Mr. James Hide, (b. 1613), aged 22, British settler traveling aboard the ship "Matthew" arriving in St Christopher (Saint Kitts) in 1635 12
Francis and William Hide, who settled in Barbados in 1663
Stephen Hide, who settled in Barbados in 1685

Contemporary Notables of the name Hide (post 1700) +

Arthur Bollard Hide (1860-1933), English first class cricketer and test match umpire
Jesse Bollard Hide (1857-1924), English cricketer
Peter Hide (b. 1944), English born abstract sculptor
Edward Hide (1937-2023), British jockey who was the sixth most successful jockey in British racing history and remains the ninth most successful jockey over 30 years after his retirement
Raymond Hide CBE FRS (b. 1929), British physicist, former Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford
Herbie Hide (b. 1971), born Herbert Okechukwu Maduagwu, British boxer of Nigerian heritage
Rodney Philip Hide (b. 1956), New Zealand politician, leader of the political party ACT New Zealand from 2004 to 2011

The Hide Motto +

The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.

Motto: Deus novis haec otio fecit
Motto Translation: God hath given us these things in tranquillity.

Citations +

Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 30th October 2020). Retrieved from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/Britannia
Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 16th September 2020). Retrieved from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/baring
State Library of Queensland. (Retrieved 2014, November 24) Albion voyage to New South Wales, Australia in 1828 with 192 passengers. Retrieved from http://www.convictrecords.com.au/ships/albion/1828
Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 14th July 2020). Retrieved from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/atlas
State Records of South Australia. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) ISABELLA WATSON 1846. Retrieved from http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1846IsabellaWatson.htm
New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 26th March 2019). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html
New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 17th October 2018). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_West_Indies
Pilgrim Ship's of 1600's (Retrieved October 4th 2021 from https://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/shiplist.htm