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Personal History: the Payne family
Sitting in front of them, looking like he's about to fall out of his chair is Sam, who going to get married right after this upcoming Valentine's Day. Lucky stiff. The young-looking feller next to Sam is David, who is in Germany this year trying to get a sauerkraut smuggling ring started. (Good luck, man!) The guy next to Dave is myself or someone like me.
Now, some of you might wonder from this photo if all we have parents. We do, in fact, have both a Mom and a Dad. You can't see them in this picture because they aren't in it. Now some of you might think that the reason is that they were the ones taking all the pictures, but if that's what you think, you're right.
Speaking of pictures, if you'd like to see more pictures of my family, you're in luck! Especially if you want to see photos that are about five or six years old! I have a couple of pages of family pics posted in my photo album.
If there's anything else you want to know about my family, or you want to become a member of the House of Payne (four of the boys are still available!), just drop me a line.
I have always been interested in where words come from. And with a name like Payne, I think it's pretty natural to wonder how folks end up with the names they do. A couple of years ago, I cound this really interesting site called Surnames: What's in a Name?. It's defunct now, as far as I can figure, but while it was up it had all kinds of interesting information on the meanings of family names.
Having always wondered where the name "Payne" came from, I was delighted to find that this was one of the names on the site. Here's their entry.
"Payne : is a derivative of Pain, which is an English Patronymic name from the Middle English given name Pain. It comes from the Old French Paien , which came from Latin Paganus -- where pagus meant outlying village. To make the long story short (or to wrap up an already long explanation of its origin), Pain was a civilian instead of a soldier and lived in an outlying area. Derivatives include Paine, Payne, Payen and Payan."
And just in case you were wondering where my given name comes from...
"John is one of the most popular of the medieval names, and took several forms even in medieval times. John derived from Hebrew Yochanan (God has favoured me with a son).
"David . . . was the patron saint of Wales, and the name was popular throughout early Britain. [Derived] . . . from Hebrew David = beloved."
If there's anything else you want to know about my family, or you want to become a member of the House of Payne (four of the boys are still available!), just drop me a line.
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