When Ellen Haynes was born on 29 March 1862, in London, England, her father, Richard Haynes, was 39 and her mother, Eliza Brown, was 35. She died on 21 September 1863, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 1.
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English: variant of Hayne , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s; see Hain . Compare Hains .
English: habitational name from Haynes (Bedfordshire), which may derive from Old English hagenas, plural form of hagen ‘enclosure’.
English: in English counties bordering Wales, perhaps from the Welsh personal name Einws (a pet form of Welsh Einion) with a prosthetic H-; see also Enos . While this is linguistically possible there is no evidence yet to show that it was the origin of the surname.
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