Show ContentsLoynd History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

The lineage of the name Loynd begins with the Anglo-Saxon tribes in Britain. It is a result of when they lived in an area that was referred to as the laund, which was Old Norman word meaning the open space in a forest or the lawn. There were a number of locations in England with this topograghic place-name including Yorkshire and Lancashire.

Early Origins of the Loynd family

The surname Loynd was first found in Yorkshire at Lund, a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the union of Beverley, Bainton-Beacon division of the wapentake of Harthill. There is also a Lund in Lancashire in the parish of Kirkham, union of the Fylde, hundred of Amounderness but this parish was constituted in 1840.

Early History of the Loynd family

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Loynd Spelling Variations

Only recently has spelling become standardized in the English language. As the English language evolved in the Middle Ages, the spelling of names changed also. The name Loynd has undergone many spelling variations, including Lund, Lun, Lunn, Lwn, Lunt and others.

Early Notables of the Loynd family

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Ireland Migration of the Loynd family to Ireland

Some of the Loynd family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Migration of the Loynd family

To escape the unstable social climate in England of this time, many families boarded ships for the New World with the hope of finding land, opportunity, and greater religious and political freedom. Although the voyages were expensive, crowded, and difficult, those families that arrived often found greater opportunities and freedoms than they could have experienced at home. Many of those families went on to make significant contributions to the rapidly developing colonies in which they settled. Early North American records indicate many people bearing the name Loynd were among those contributors: George Lund arrived in New York in 1820; Charles, Henry, John, and Peter Lund all arrived in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1860; Henry Lunt settled in Massachusetts in 1633.


HMS Prince of Wales
  • Mr. Robert Loynd, "Bob" British Seaman, who sailed into battle on the HMS Prince of Wales (1941) and survived the sinking 1
RMS Lusitania
  • Reverend David Loynd, English 2nd Class passenger from England, who sailed aboard the RMS Lusitania (1915) and died in the sinking and was recovered 2
  • Mrs. Alice Loynd, (née Grimshaw), English 2nd Class passenger from England, who sailed aboard the RMS Lusitania (1915) and died in the sinking and was recovered 2


  1. HMS Prince of Wales Crew members. (Retrieved 2014, April 9) . Retrieved from http://www.forcez-survivors.org.uk/biographies/listprincecrew.html
  2. Lusitania Passenger List - The Lusitania Resource. (Retrieved 2014, March 6) . Retrieved from http://www.rmslusitania.info/lusitania-passenger-list/


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