Hearn family

[1] Alternate uses of the word occur in Old English as hyrne, meaning a nook or a corner of land or in a bend.

[3] The Heron Baronetcy, of Chipchase,[6] was created on 20 November 1662 in the Baronetage of England by Charles II for Cuthbert Heron of Chipchase Castle, Northumberland in recognition of the loyalty shown to the King's father Charles I.

[citation needed] Hearne was a Captain in Oliver Cromwell's army,[8] and would later maintain a successful business enterprise in London selling Muscovado sugar from the West Indies between 1680 and 1688.

[9] Around 1688, William immigrated to America with his wife, Mary (née Cuthbert), settling on the border of contemporary Maryland and Delaware in Somerset County, United States, where he died in 1691.

[11] Variations and alternate spellings of the family name would occur onward from the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries in both England and the United States, including Hearne and Harn.