Did You Know?
42 fascinating facts about the Hinchman family — from bishops and baseball players to prisoners of war and polar explorers.
Who was the Bishop of London in 1663?
Who was the first Hinchman to settle in Boston, MA in 1637?
Who was the Henchman ancestor of an American president?
Who was the president of Harvard who resigned in 1675?
Who printed the first Bible in the American Colonies?
What is John Hancock's connection to the Hinchman family?
Which Hinchmans served in the Revolutionary War?
Who were the four Hinchman brothers who settled in Indiana in the early 1800s?
Who were the four Hinchman brothers and their sister who settled in Michigan about 1840?
Who was the town of Man, West Virginia named after?
Who was the sixty-year-old civilian prisoner of war taken to Salisbury prison during the Civil War?
Who was the Hinchman from Allegheny Co., PA who settled in Randolph Co., Virginia in the mid-1800s?
Who were the two Hinchman brothers who played major league baseball?
Who are three Hinchmans who played minor league baseball?
Who is the only Hinchman to have gone to Antarctica?
Who served forty-four years as a Christian missionary in Japan?
Who are two Hinchmans who almost lived to be 100 years old?
Who are Hinchman family members who have visited All Saints Fulham Church in London?
Who was a professional football player in the Hinchman family?
Who was the doctor who dipped his patient into the icy waters of Peconic Bay?
Who was the founder and first president of the Hinchman Heritage Society?
Who are two Hinchman brothers who lived in Cabell Co., WV in the late 1800s?
What is the most likely original meaning of the surname Hinchman?
Did the word "henchman" originally have a negative meaning?
Which English county is most strongly associated with the early Henchman/Hinchman family?
Who was the most famous historical figure connected to the Henchman surname?
What major historical disasters did Bishop Humphrey Henchman live through?
Are all people named Hinchman automatically entitled to the same coat of arms?
What symbols appear on the heraldic crest associated with the Hinchman surname?
Why are buglehorns especially meaningful on the Hinchman crest?
What is the most important published genealogy book about the Hinchman family?
What American state has a town indirectly named after the Hinchman family?
What medieval responsibility may early Henchman ancestors have had in noble households?
Why do historians believe the Hinchman surname is genuinely medieval in origin?
Which famous English university did Humphrey Henchman attend?
What major political conflict shaped the life of Humphrey Henchman?
What was one reason surnames became more common after the Norman Conquest of 1066?
Which colonial American regions contain some of the earliest known Hinchman family settlements?
Why are Quaker records important for Hinchman genealogy research?
What architectural firm carried the Hinchman name into modern American history?
What historical event helped spread English surnames permanently through family lines?
What is one of the biggest misconceptions about family crests?