Daynes History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

For many English families, the political and religious disarray that shrouded England made the far away New World an attractive prospect. On cramped disease-ridden ships, thousands migrated to those British colonies that would eventually become Canada and the United States. Those hardy settlers that survived the journey often went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Daynes or a variant listed above:

Daynes Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

• John Daynes, who arrived in Virginia in 1652 [3]
• William Daynes, who landed in Virginia in 1655 [3]

Daynes Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century

• Miss. Rebecca Daynes, (b. 1819), aged 28, British Housemaid who was convicted in Norwich, Norfolkshire, England for 14 years for stealing, transported aboard the "Asia" on 9th March 1847, arriving in Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land), she died in 1852 [4]

• Kathryn M. "Kathy" Daynes (b. 1946), American historian and professor of history at Brigham Young University, President of the Mormon History Association in 2008 and 2009
• John Daynes, English-born immigrant to America with his wife Eliza Miller Daynes, together they founded Daynes Music, in Midvale, Utah, the oldest retail business and continuously operated family business in Utah
• Joseph John Daynes (1851-1920), English organist for Norwich, England, the first organist at the Salt Lake Tabernacle and for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
• Élisabeth Daynès (b. 1960), French sculptor
• Colin Daynes (1974-1996), Canadian Greco-Roman wrestler at the 1996 Summer Olympics