Haining History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

At this time, the shores of the New World beckoned many English families that felt that the social climate in England was oppressive and lacked opportunity for change. Thousands left England at great expense in ships that were overcrowded and full of disease. A great portion of these settlers never survived the journey and even a greater number arrived sick, starving, and without a penny. The survivors, however, were often greeted with greater opportunity than they could have experienced back home. These English settlers made significant contributions to those colonies that would eventually become the United States and Canada. An examination of early immigration records and passenger ship lists revealed that people bearing the name Haining arrived in North America very early:

• Jane Haining (1897-1944), Scottish Church of Scotland missionary who was arrested by the Nazis in 1944 and died in the concentration camp at Auschwitz, posthumously named a British Hero of the Holocaust in 2010
• William Wallace "Will" Haining (b. 1982), Scottish contemporary footballer
• Hayley Haining (b. 1972), British runner at the 2008 Olympic Games
• General Sir Robert Hadden Haining KCB DSO (1882-1959), British Army general who served during World War II, Commandant of the Imperial Defence College (1935-1937), GOC-in-C Western Command (1939-1940), Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1940-1941), Lord Lieutenant of Surrey (1949-1957)
• Peter Alexander Haining (1940-2007), British journalist, author and anthologist, awarded the British Fantasy Awards Karl Edward Wagner Award in 2001
• Peter Moir Haining (b. 1962), Scottish rower, three-time World Lightweight Sculling Champion