P R E F ACE . I n attempting to write the history of a family one meets Th with many difficulties . e most reliable information to be obtained for a work of this kind is , of course , the records . But it is an endless undertaking to search for records , hidden by years of time , and scattered far and wide . And as such a history begins at a time when few records were kept , and ffi but few of them preserved , the di culty in procuring satis k a factory data is quite apparent . After tracing bac only few generations it becomes very uncertain , and unsatisfactory . I k n obtaining data from those who know , or should now , something of their immediate family history , you are also f V met with di ficulties . ery few take interest enough in their family history to take the time to furnish information to m ake a satisfactory and complete history of the family . At first my obj ect was simply to track back my ow n imme I diate family to its origin , but in doing so gathered much information of other families of the name , and concluded to put it all in book form , that it may aid others in writing a S more accurate and complete history of the family hine , or in locating relatives . I desire to acknowledge my indebtedness to R ev. I R ev R P Wolfe , of Kilmallock , reland ; . P . ing , of I r e. J A F N S . C. Ballyclough , ; unius ugustus hine , of aison , ; D S S F l J a . R . avid hepard hine , of acksonville , ; Walter Boze A Ga F E S D man , of tlanta , ; rancis ppes hine , M . , of Bisbee , A k . S S k D rizona ; Patric C hine , of po ane , Wash . ; aniel S hine J New N E . C. S D ones , of Bern , ; ugene hine , of owneyville , Ont . G S L Ont . J S ; eorge hine , of indsay , ; Miss ulia hine , of Ot . I l I n Cleveland , and Mrs Alice Banks . of ndianapo is d for their valuable assistance in furnishing data and material for k I this wor . am also very thankful to many others who kindly answered my letters . John W . S hine . S S t e . h ault Marie , Mic , Ma l st 1917 y , . I A D E N LAND THE F AMI LY OF S HI NE I N R E L N , G AND S COTLAND . CHAP TE R I . F rom the remotest time , man has endeavored to preserve L r his genealogy and family ancestry . ong before the ecord ing of events was practiced it was not unusual to find per s ons who could , from memory , trace their lineage far back through a long line of ancestors into the remote ages . ’ I n Homer s time men were inspired to noble and heroic d eeds by recounting to them the valor and prowess of their ancestors for three and four generations back . And the people of nearly every country have , in some way or another , f T kept records o family genealogy . here were many reasons s I t for doing o. was a natural instinct to know of parents , grandparents and great grandparents through their memory being conveyed from father to son , and through family tradi I t and tions . was also important in the descent of property other heraldic rights to keep a correct account of the line of ancestry . After writing came in use records were more easily kept and preserved . And ln more recent years printing made it still more easily to record and preserve family genealogies . U i n nfortunately , however , most of the countries have , time , been devastated by war , and overrun by tribes and people i who did not appreciate the preservation of records , or real ze their value , so that much of the records in most every country f have been lost or destroyed , making it quite di ficult in many cases to trace back , with any degree of satisfaction , the m genealogy of any family for any centuries . Th e changes in the spelling of names also adds to the difficulties in t r a cm g the names back from one generation to T another . hen again as surnames only came in general use a b e in the eleventh century , when we attempt to tr ce back f yond that period , we find the task a most di ficult one , and if it were not for the fact that a few scattering records have 2 come down through all the wreck and ruin of ages to guide us in our research , all would have been lost in the buried centuries of the past . But with such records as have sur ed vi v , we can , by comparison and analyzation , trace out , with a certain degree of accuracy , the genealogy of most families To for many centuries back . trace the genealogy of any family one will be impressed with the devious winding course , the intermixing of family trees and crossing and recrossing di fi er ent of ancestral lines , and the great number of family I t t lines that are connected . shows , as suggested by Har “ How every race and every creed Might be by love combined , Might be combined , yet not forget T h e fountains whence they rose , As filled by many a rivulet . f Th e stately S hannon lows . CHAP TE R I I . h F mi Name h i n Cr i gi n of t e a ly S e. Th a I E S e n me S hine is found in reland , ngland and cot I I t i n land , but principally in reland . is rarely found any of u E or A the other co ntries of urope , Asia frica , especially for I any distance back . We must look , therefore , to reland , E , ngland and S cotland for the origin of the name , or the r earliest reco d of the name as a family name . I t is claimed by some , and particularly by one well known e S i s E author and g nealogist , that the name hine an nglish “ S . J . S name of axon origin Mr osiah H hinn , in his History S F ” r of the hinn amily , gives considerable space to the o igin of the name S hinn . He shows that the name S hinn is de rived from the name S hine and endeavors to establish the S axon origin of the name . He concludes that the name is S “ S derived from the axon root word inn , which finds its t S “ n counterpar in the uevian S enn . He thi ks the intrusion “ ” S of the h in inn may have been for euphony ; if not , then , to destroy the meaning the phonetic form gave to S inn . Mr . S hinn does not deal with the Celtic origin of the name to a n S y extent , although the family hine was an old family in I reland long before there is any record of the family in E n g ’ S h i nn s w I . land . And hile have the greatest regard for Mr I work , and for his ability as a genealogist , cannot agree I with him in the origin of the name S hine . am of the opinion that the name is of Celtic origin , and originally of I reland . Th e family did not form a Clan in the early times , except “ ” V 1 ’ S . it be Clan hane ( see oli , Hart s Ped , and on that account there appears to be no record of them as a I Th C an so . e S l far as have been able to learn name hine , a s c here spelled , is not found mu h farther back than the 1 6 S S th century . Before that time it was Spelled hyne , hene , S S S S h n S heene , heen , heyn , y , and still farther back , egene , ’ “ i i n i i n D e G eneal o i S S e e O S e . e gine , g and g Courcy , in his g of F m I cal History the Milesians a ilies of reland , published “ ’ 1 8 80 31 O S h i ne an in , on page , gives the name and its ” “ ” e S i odh a ch ai n ci nt name , meaning sprightly Chiefs in L s Counties Cork , Kerry and imerick , de cendants of Cormac D l T I a . Cas of the Cas ribe of Milesians However , have been unable to confirm D e Courcy by any other authority as to the S ancient name , or the connection of the family hine with the ’ D l T I n A M h n s I a . a cGeo e a a Cas ribe bbe g g History of rel nd , ’ 1 27 Co mac Gas O S i odh a page , among the descendants of r is “ S ” chain , with the name ihan in parenthesis following it , and indicating that as the more modern spelling of the name , “ ” and as the letter 11 was silent the name was pronounced S as if spelled hine , and in all probability this may be ’ ’ D e C h i n S e. R Courcy s authority for the name Mr . ooney , in I F 455 his work on rish amilies , page , gives a short space to the name and asserts that the ancient name and ancestry to ’ D e be the same as is found in Courcy s work , and no doubt w a s copied from that work .