Keynes family

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The Keynes (pronounced [keinz] - kānz / kAnze) family is a prominent English family that has included notable economists, writers, and actors.

The descendants of Geoffrey Keynes (1887), are also related to the Darwin — Wedgwood family.

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[edit] Family tree of modern Keynes family

 
 
 
 
 
 John Neville Keynes
 
 
 
 Florence Ada Brown
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lydia Lopokova
 
 John Maynard Keynes
 
 Geoffrey Keynes
 
 Margaret Elizabeth Darwin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Margaret Neville Keynes
 
 
 Archibald Hill
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Richard Darwin Keynes
 
 Anne Pinsent Adrian
 
 
 Quentin Keynes
 
 
 
 Milo Keynes
 
 
 
 Stephen Keynes
 
 Various Descendants
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Simon Keynes
 
 
 
 Randal Keynes
 
 Zelfa Cecil Hourani
 
 
 
 
 Roger Keynes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Soumaya Keynes
 
 
 
 Skandar Keynes
 

[edit] History

The English surname Keynes is derived from a Norman place name, either Cahagnes (Calvados) or Cahaignes (Eure), which are documented as places of origin of people of this name[1] or possibly also from similar placenames not so documented.

The earliest documented person in England bearing the name was William de Cahaignes from Normandy who was born around 1035. Of another Norman William de Cahaignes (born around 1060 and probably his son), Katharine Keats-Rohan writes:- "Norman, from Cahaignes, Calvados, arr. Vire, cant. Aunay-sur-Odon[2]. Major tenant of Robert, Count of Mortain (half-brother of William the Conqueror) in several Domesday counties. He was Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1086, and again in the early years of Henry I. His widow Adelicia made a grant for his soul to Lewes priory, with the assent of their son Hugh (Mon. Ang. v,14). His lands were divided between his three sons, of whom Hugh held the forest of Northamptonshire in 1129/30." [3]:

There is not necessarily any connection between this family and other contemporary families using the surname Keynes or any variant of it, or between identifed medieval bearers of the name and later persons using the surname Keynes or any variant of it.

[edit] Surname derivatives

Surname variants include "De Keynes", "Keynes", "de Cayenes", "Caynes", "Caines".[1]

[edit] Places in England bearing the name Keynes

The following places were named after the de Cahaignes or Keynes family who held many manors in the years following the Norman Conquest:

[edit] Notable persons surnamed Keynes

See Keynes (disambiguation).

[edit] Sources

  • Keats-Rohan, Katherine S. B. Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166. 2v. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b P.H. Reaney, 1997. Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd edn). Oxford: OUP
  2. ^ although in fact the place in Calvados is Cahagnes
  3. ^ Keats-Rohan. Domesday people,page 472. Retrieved on 2006-12-26.

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