Payne of London and Birmingham

This surname in many forms including Pain, Payn, Payne, Paine, Paines, Paynes, Pagan, Pagon and Fitzpayn, is medieval English but of French and ultimately Roman origins. It derives from the pre 7th century personal name "Pagen", itself from the word "paien" and the earlier Latin "paganus" (a man exempt from military service). The original meaning was a villager or rustic, and later a heathen. In England it is first recorded in the famous Domesday Book of 1086, with that of Edmund filius Pagen of Somerset, whilst Reginoldus filius Pain appears in the Knight Templars (Crusader) register of Lincolnshire in 1185. Other recordings taken from early surviving rolls and charters include Jone Pane of Worcester in 1190, Stephen Paynes of London, in the Patent Rolls of 1230, John Pagan of Worcester, in the Hundred Rolls of 1275, and Roberd le Fitzpayn of Lancashire in 1305. Amongst the earliest recordings of colonists in the New World is that of Susanna Pain, the daughter of Robert and Elisabeth Pain. She was baptised in the parish of St. Michael's, Barbados, on August 5th 1678. A coat of arms associated with the family name was granted on January 12th 1586 by Queen Elizabeth 1st (1558 - 1603). It has the blazon of a gold shield, charged with three golden heraldic roses on a bend engrailed between two cotises.

Prior to 1650, several families bearing the surname Payne settled in the English colonies. It has long been assumed that these families had no genealogical relationship, or if they did, it was not a close one. However, DNA analysis of their descendants is now beginning to show a common ancestry. DNA test results to date make it clear that the English Payne families of Suffolk, Huntingdonshire and Jersey in the Channel Islands, were related.

In the nineteenth century the name was relatively most abundant in the south and east of England.

Relative abundance of Payne family members in 1881

The earliest Payne (or Pain) that we know is Hiram. In 1829, whilst still a very young man, he fathered a child, Mary Ann, by Mary Ann Bottomley. The child was born illegitimately, for Hiram married Elizabeth Daniel at about the time that his first child was born.

Hiram and Elizabeth had four children before Elizabeth died, probably in child birth. In 1841 widowed Hiram was lodging, with his four legitimate children, in the house of Thomas Samm, a cook, in Hoxton New Town, part of Shoreditch, and which at that time was a new suburb on the edge of the City of London. Today the areas has been completely subsumed in to Greater London. Hiram had marrid Elizabeth in St Martins in the Fuields, Westminster on 22 November 1829. Their children were born in Clerkenwell, St Pancras and Shoreditch, all suburbs to the north and northeast of the City.

In June 1841 Hiram married Frances Barber in Shoreditch. Frances bore two children. Unfortunately the family can not be located in the 1851 census, however it is known that Hiram was waiter, apparently throughout his working career. It is not known when he died, but he was still alive when his second son, Hiram married Mary Ann Jolly in 1857. By that time Hiram junior was living and working in Birmingham. His wife was born in Birmingham.

Hiram junior worked as a house painter and decorator. The couple lived first at 34 Tudor Street in Ladywood, then 3 Spring Hill in All Saints. By 1871 the famiy was living at 81 Lower Essex Street with a lodger George Kemp, a bird cage maker, and his wife and young daughter. The last of Hiram and Mary Ann's four known children was born the following year. Ten years later the family lived at Wrentham Street and employed a house servant. Hiram appears also to have had properties on Bristol Road and Gooch Street. For reason or reasons unknown, at around this time Hiram started using the name William Hiram.

In 1891 William Hiram and Mary Ann were still on Wrentham Street, with only their youngest son, Hiram, at home, as well as two boarders. William Hiram died in summer of 1900. His son Hiram was by then well established in the painting and decorating trade also.

1881 AT HOME
1891 PAINTER & DECORATOR WITH PARENTS
1901 HOUSE PAINTER;COURT 45, HOUSE 2;LATIMER ST.;ST ,MARTINS;B'HAM PLUS WIFE;CHILDREN AND MOTHER
d. BRONCHO-PNEUMONIA

1 . . Hiram PAYNE/PAIN b.c1815 d.>1857 m.#1 Mary Ann BOTTOMLEY: #2 Elizabeth DANIEL: #3 Frances BARKER
2 . . . #1 Mary Ann PAYNE OR BOTTOMLEY b.1829
2 . . . #2 Charles PAYNE b.1830 d.>1841
2 . . . #2 William Hiram/Hirum PAYNE b.c1834 d.1900 m.Mary Ann JOLLY
3 . . . . .Mary Ann PAYNE b.c1859 d.>1861
3 . . . . .William Hiram PAYNE b.1866 d.1867
3 . . . . .Charles Harry PAYNE b.1870 d.>1871
3 . . . . .Hiram PAYNE b.1872 d.1907 m.Lillian HANDS
4 . . . . . . Hiram PAYNE b.1897 d.1966 m.Lizzie -
5 . . . . . . . Bernard Hiram PAYNE m.Agnes COLDICOTT
6 . . . . . . . . .Peter PAYNE
6 . . . . . . . . .Maureen PAYNE
5 . . . . . . . Peter Frederick PAYNE m.Lilian J. FINAN
6 . . . . . . . . .Anthony PAYNE
6 . . . . . . . . .Mary PAYNE
4 . . . . . . George Frederick PAYNE b.1899 d.1972 m.Gladys Emily TRAVIS
5 . . . . . . . John Frederick PAYNEm. Mavis Jean EGGLETON
4 . . . . . . Lilain PAYNE m.Austen GIBBS
5 . . . . . . . Margaret GIBBS b.c1937 d.c1954
4 . . . . . . Phyllis PAYNE m.James THORPE
5 . . . . . . . Geoffrey Lawrence THORPE m.Margaret LANGLEY
6 . . . . . . . . .Sarah Margaret THORPE m.- -
5 . . . . . . . Barbara THORPE m.Brian ROSE
2 . . . #2 Elizabeth PAYNE b.1834
2 . . . #2 Thomas John PAYNE b.c1837 d.>1841
2 . . . #3 William PAYNE b.1842
2 . . . #3 Edward PAYNE b.1844