In 1890, Henry Brougham Guppy. M.B. (Edin.), published his ‘Homes of Family Names in Great Britain’. This is part of his entry for the county of Dorset
The HANNS of Dorset may find an ancestor in Robert Hann, getn., of Corfe, Somerset, who owned a farm in Worth Matravers probably early last century (Hutchins’ “Dorsetshire”)
Hugh HANSFORD, who died in Loders in 1677, made a benefaction of four acres for the poor of the pariah; Robert Hansford was churchwarden of Loders in 1786 (Hutchins’ “Dorsetshire”). The name is still in Loders
The family of HAYTER had an estate and seat in East Creech, Knolle parish, in the 17th and 18th centuries; but in 1770 it passed out of their hands. During the latter half of last century there were two well-known Shaftesbury squires of this name, and the name is still in that town. The great tithes of Sydling St. Nicholas, in the first quarter of last century, were held by a Mr. Hayter. John Hayter, son of the rector of Sutton Mandeville, Wilts, lived for half a century in Melbury Abbas, and died in 1770; his son (apparently) was churchwarden of Melbury Abbas, Dorset, in 1786 (Hutchins’ “Dorsetshire”)
The Dorset HISCOCKS are mostly gathered around Shaftesbary. The name, which is still well represented in Wilts, occurred in the parish of Berwick Saint John in that county in the middle of the 17th century (Hoare’s “Wilts”)
The HOMERS of Dorchester and its neighbourhood possess an ancient Dorset surname. According to Lower, there was a Thomas de Homere in 1338 who held lands in this county; Homer is also the name of an ancient Staffordshire family, and there is a hamlet thus called in the adjoining county of Shropshire
Giles HOUNSELL was chief magistrate of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the reign of Charles I. (Ellis’s “Weymouth & Melcombe Regis”). Hounsell is still a Weymouth name
The KELLAWAYS probably take their name from a parish in Wilts. The Kelways or Kellaways were an ancient family of Chilfrome, where they lived during the first half of the 16th century, and at the same time one of the name owned land in Long Bredy and Allington (Hutchins’ “Dorsetshire”). In the latter part of the 15th century, William Kelway, gent., held land in Sherborne parish, and ” seems to have been ancestor to a family after seated at Lillington” (Hutchins’ “Dorsetshire”). Through last century there was a well-to-do family at Piddle Hinton bearing this name (Hutchins’ “Dorsetshire”). Joseph Kelloway, one of the martyrs of the Monmouth rebellion in 1685, met his death on the scaffold at Somerton in Somersetshire (•’Western Martyrology “)
The ancient family of KEYNES owned the manors of Stoke Wake, Candel Wake, and Hull, as well as estates in Wilts, during the 15th and 16th centuries. Still further back, they owned part of the manor of Combe Keynes during the 14th century (Hutchins’ “Dorsetshire”). This name was usually spelt Keynes, but sometimes Kaines, so that probably the present Caines” of this county hail from the same stock
The Dorset HULLS probably derive their name from a place in the county
HAWLAND was the name of fifteen mayors of Poole from 1494 to 1569 (Sydenham’s “Poole”). The name is now rare in the county.
