NORMAN ORIGIN OF THE HEARNE FAMILY. Sir Bernard Burke says, "This family traces its settlement in England to the era of the Norman Conquest. and the name, as then written, Heroun, is found amongst the persons of distinction who followed in the train of Wilham the Conqueror, A. D. 1066." A work published in London, England, in 1874, upon the "Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States of America contains the following information: "Hearne, for Heron, from Hairun near Rouen, Normandy Tihel de Heiron was in Essex in 1086 He accompanied William the Conqueror. William Heron held a barony in Normandy, time of Philip Augustus. Odonel Heron, time of William Rufus. 1087, witnessed a charter in Durham, England. Alban de Hairun held a barony in Hertfordshire, England. A. D 1165 Richard de Hairun held in Essex also in 1165 Dru de Hairun was in Yorkshire, and Jordan de Hairun in Northumberland. In the latter county the Herons were of great note, and William Heron was summoned as a baron in 1369." In the above work the following different spellings of this sirname occur: Hairun, Heiron, Heron, Hearn, Hearne, Hearon and Herron It is a well-known rule in heraldry that varying orthography in the spelling of a surname, 'when there is armorial identification, does not affect consanguinity.' THE SURNAME HEARNE, AS IT APPEARS ON THREE DIFFERENT COPIES OF THE ROLL OF BATTLE ABBEY. "The Roll of Battle Abbey, in the Church of Dives, Normandy of the Companions of William, the Seventh Duke of Normandy, in the Conquest of England," by M. Leopold Deliste, Member of the

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