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Welcome to the web site covering the history of the Hayde family.  This site contains genealogical material on the Hayde family.  It also contains references to surname variants as applicable.

More than 20 branches of the Hayde family have been documented to date.  The origins and early members of each of these families have been described on this site and are summarised below. Clicking on the tabs above directs the visitor to the relevant details of the family in the various trees.  However, to respect the privacy of those living, very little information is shown for people born in the 1900s.

The tabs at the top of the web page outlines the various source documents and research material. These pages outline the Irish and German origins of the name and the various descendants traced in England, America, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Poland, Hungary and elsewhere.

These pages also cover the meaning of the name and the movement of branches of the family around the world.  It also includes references to the main surname variants – Hade, Haide and Heade.

A key part of recent research involves using DNA techniques to connect the branches of the family and also to determine our origins. The DNA Research tab outlines this work.

The site shows the various family trees in a set of tabs above, just below the Hayde Family History heading.

The tabs immediately above reflect the various family origins. These web pages provide more detail on families in the areas described. There are sub pages where further information is provided on families that have moved or emigrated.  They are also intended to be able to receive comments (‘blogs’) from family members who are able/keen to contribute old photos or stories to their family page.  The facility to post blogs is available at the bottom of each of these pages.

As mentioned in the Research Sources page, most of the current Hayde families can be traced back to Ireland. Some have German and East European origins but these don’t share the same DNA as the Irish families and there is no documentary evidence to prove a connection.  These families are all described on this web site.

As mentioned in the Irish Research page, I believe there were 10 main family groupings in Ireland in 1659:

Subsequent to 1659, families spread north to Killkenny, Carlow, Wicklow, Kildare and Dublin. With the Tipperary families, I have described the families under each Catholic parish area as outlined below:

There is no structure to how I have numbered the trees.  They were given a number as I came across them. I had no idea when I started how many I would find!. The trees researched are summarised below. The summary starts with the Irish families and then covers the German and other Hayde connections.

From Killenaule, Tipperary (Trees # 1,6,9,10):

This appears to be the main area of our origins.  In 1659 there were 4 families in this area – numbers 5-8 on the map above.  These were:

• John Haide at Ballinure (Trees # 6, 9 and 10)
• Thomas Hade at Noan (Tree # 10)
• James Head at Killballyherberry (Tree # 1)
• Richard Head at Killenaule (Tree # 10)

These families have spread around the world.  The Kilballyherberry family has its own page as has the Ballinure and Noan families and the Killenaule ones.

Many descendants from this area have had their DNA tested and they are all very similar.  This is the starting point for the DNA family.

From Ballingarry, Tipperary (Tree # 2 and 14):

The tax records of this area in 1666/7 showed four family units, shown as numbers 1-4 on the map above.  These were:

• Edward and James Heade in the Ballingarry area
• James Heade at Ballyphillip
• James Heade at Poynstown
• Robert Heade at Ikerrin

By the time of the 1830 tithe records, the descendants were:

• Patrick Heade at Boula (Bolinthea)
• Michael Head at Knockadabe
• James Head at Lickfinn

I have traced the descendants of the Boula family to Wales (Tree # 2) and Chicago (Tree # 14).  It has died out in Boula.  It also seems to have died out in the Chicago branch.

The family is described more in the Ballingarry page.

I have not found a living descendant in order to do a DNA test.

From Cashel, Tipperary (Tree # 12):

A James Hiade was in Derryluskan in 1665/6/7 and he is probably one of the 10 Heade/Hayde/Haide/Hade families in the 1659 census. He is shown as number 9 in the map above.

In 1766 a James Head was at Rathcoole and a Nich Head was at Railstown. These places are all close by and in the Cashel Catholic parish.

By the time the Catholic records started in 1793, there were families at Monameagh, Coolmoyne and Brickeen, which are all in the same area.

The details of these families are outlined in the Cashel page. A descendant emigrated to America in 1851 and settled in Kansas City.  There is a large Hayde family in Kansas that are descended from this person.

DNA tests on a descendant show a connection to the families from Killenaule.

From Drangan, Tipperary (Tree # 11):

This tree traces the records for the Drangan and surrounding rural parishes from the early 1800s when records started. It includes a family that emigrated to Connecticut.

The Drangan page covers this family.

I have not found a living relative from this tree.

From Fethard, Tipperary area (Tree # 8):

The tax records of 1666/7 showed a James Head at Rathdangin in the Fethard parish, Fethard. Rathdangin appears on old maps as an area south of Fethard close to what is now called Kiltinan. He is shown as number 10 in the map above.

Fethard is in the barony of Middlethird which in the 1659 census only showed 8 Headen and 5 O’Hea families.  The Head(e) families were presumably either counted as part of the O’Hea numbers or ignored due to their low usage.

In 1766 an Edmund Head was in the village of Killusky. He probably descended from the family that was in Rathdangin in 1666/7.

In 1828, Michael Heade was farming 3 acres at Cappadroma.  This now called Cappadrummin.

In the parish records (which started in 1806), the main families I have found are:

• Patrick Hayde and Judith Daniel who had a family at Boolagh and Cappadrummin.
• Michael Hayde and Ann Sweeney who had a family in Fethard town.
• John Hayde and Ellen Bergan at a place not recorded in the parish records.

The only descendants that I can find of these families relates to a John Hayde b 1826 to John and Ellen.  He joined the RIC and eventually settled in Naas, Kildare. I have traced his descendants.  This family is covered in more detail in the Fethard page. A DNA test has shown that the DNA was very different to the families from Killenaule (Trees # 1, 10)

From North Tipperary (Tree # 7):

A few Hayde families were in the areas north west of Killenaule by 1800.  They were not in the 1659 census or the 1666 Hearth Money Records so they must have originated from the Boherlahan and Killenaule area and moved to Clonoulty in the 1700s.

Two families were in Kilduff, at the foothills of Killduff mountain, in the 1830s. They left the area in the 1840s and I have traced descendants to England and Australia. The DNA of a descendant matches that of families for Killenaule.

This family is outlined in the North Tipperary page.

From Urlingford, Kilkenny (Tree # 4):

There was no sign of a Hayde or anything similar in this area in the 1659 census or 1664 Hearth Money Records.

By the early 1800s there were families in the Lisdowney and Urlingford parishes. These are explained in more detail in the Urlingford pages.

I have tested the DNA of one descendant and found it was quite different to those from Killenaule. The testing of more descendants is required to properly evaluate this branch.

From Kilkenny City (Tree # 20):

The earliest record from this area related to a Michael Heade who died in Irishtown in the central city area in 1739. I have build Tree # 20 from this person to a family that settled in New Jersey as well as those that stayed in Kilkenny. This is described in the Kilkenny City page.

From Rural Kilkenny (Tree # 22):

James and John Hayde were farming 17 acres at Moanmore in 1827. This is in the parish of Dunnamaggan. They probably came from a Tipperary family and moved around the mountain, probably from the Fethard or Clonmel/Cloneen area, although this is unproven.

Surviving children emigrated to St Louis in the 1850s and 1860s with one having arrived in the 1840s. There is no presence in the area in the 1901 and 1911 census.  The valuation records show that those that stayed had died or vacated the farms by 1880. Their details are at the Dunnamaggan page. I have not found a living relative of this family.

From Carlow County (Tree # 15):

There was no sign of a Hayde or similar in the Carlow County area in the 1659 census or Hearth Money Records.

The earliest record I can find is for a Patrick Heade who leased land in 1770.  In the 1800s there were large families in Ballylennon, Ballyvergal and Straboe.  Many descendants emigrated to America and settled in Flushing and New Jersey. Most adopted the Hade surname. Many also stayed in the area, also using the Hade surname. The DNA of a descendant from this area matches those from Killenaule so there is a clear link between the families. The families are covered in the Carlow page.

Sometime in the early 1700s, an ancestor(s) moved north from Tipperary County.  Carlow was a mining area, as was Ballingarry, and it is quite possible they moved north to seek employment.

From Kildare/Wicklow areas (Tree # 3):

As was the case for Carlow County, there was no sign of a Hayde or similar in the 1659 census or Hearth Money Records.

Derivations of the name appear in the Catholic church records in the late 1700s. In the early 1800s there were large families in the Ballymore Eustace and Dunlavin parishes.  The families expanded around the area and then parts moved to Dublin and emigrated to England, America, Australia and New Zealand. The Kildare/Wicklow page covers these families.

The DNA of a descendant matches those from the Killenaule area so proves that a family member(s) moved north from Tipperary probably in the early 1700s. It looks like they firstly moved to Carlow and then to Kildare and Wicklow.

From Dublin (Trees # 16 and 18):

In the 1800s, a list was made of residents from the 1664 Hearth Money Rolls. These Rolls unfortunately perished in the fire at the Public Records Office at the time of the civil war.  There is no relevant Hayde or variant in these records.

Hayde families stated to appear in the Dublin Catholic church records in the late 1700s.

Apart from family members that can be directly traced to Dublin from Kildare, Wicklow, Kilkenny, Carlow and Tipperary, there are two family groupings that appear in Catholic parish records in the late 1700s that I think came from the Kildare/Wicklow area but I cannot link them to Tree # 3. These are:

• Christopher etc   This is Tree # 16
• A Pat and James that were painters and had families in the 1840s.  I have grouped them separately from Tree # 16 as I cannot prove their linkage to any other tree. This is Tree # 18

These families are described in the Dublin page.

The DNA of a descendant….

From Meath (Tree # 17):

A John Hayde was born in Duleek, Co Meath, in 1864.  He died in 1912 and his wife and children emigrated to America and settled in Oregan. The children were all baptised as Heade and they used this surname when they emigrated and had their families in America.

More information on this family is on the Meath page.

John’s father was a Nicholas Hade who married in Dun Laoghire in 1863.  His father was a Nicholas Heade born about 1788.  His death in 1873 was recorded as Hayde.

DNA tests on a descendant have shown that there is a match with the families from Killenaule with variations that match those that moved to Dublin.  My assumption is that Nicholas senior was from Dublin and the family moved north to Meath in the early 1800s.

From Belfast (Tree # 23):

A Hayde family was in Belfast in the late 1800s and in the 1901 and1911 census records.  I can trace them back to a John Hayd and Mary O’Neill who married in Belfast in 1810.  The family is described more in the Belfast page. The catholic church records for this area of Belfast started in 1768 and the first entry was the 1810 marriage.  I assume that Mary must have been the Belfast resident and she met John in Dublin (or Meath) and they settled in her home town.

I have found no living relative.

From Germany and Eastern Europe (Trees # 5, 13 and 19):

In Germany there are many places with names similar to Hayde – Hayd, Heid, Heide, Heidt, being some of them.  I have traced a Hayde family back to Nuertingen in Baden Wuerttenburg in the early 1500s.  The DNA of a descendant is quite different to those of the Irish descendants and I have found no connection between the German and Irish Hayde families.

The tree that goes back to Nurtingen is Tree # 13 and is discussed more in the German Research and the German families page.

There are also Hayde families from Bohemia (Tree # 5), East Germany (Tree # 19) and Hungary (Tree # 13).  These are all described in the page on East European families.

Indiana (Tree # 21)

I found a George Hayde in Indiana in the 1860s.  He was born New Jersey and after researching his origins I found he was a descendant of a John Hyde/Hide b 1705 Gloucester, England.  I do not think this family is linked to either the Irish or German families. I have not found a living relative. Further details are on the Indiana page.

I hope you enjoy reading these web pages as much as I have enjoyed doing the research.

David Hayde

Hayde@one-name.org

The web site was set up in 2014 and content has been updated every year or so with the latest updates being in early 2025.