The Bayman Coat of Arms first attracted me to genealogy and the the arms appear in Burke's General armoury as appears to the right. The arms are the same as for the Baynham family of Gloucestershire. This photograph is of the Baynham brass in the Church at Mitcheldean, Forrest of Dean.

"Gules a chevron between three bulls heads argent"

Origin of The Surname Bayman

Copyright 2004  Peter J. Bayman

                                     

                                                        The origin of the name:

"Bayman is a corruption of Baynham to which there are many parallels...this surname is still familiar to co. Wilts. bordering                                        
on the district where Baynham arose. There cannot  be a doubt as to the origin. "      

(Dictionary of English Surnames, Bardsley G.W.)

"Ab Eignon (Welsh)  i.e.'the son of Eignon' or 'Ennion'. A Gloucestershire surname.Robert ap Eignon had for his son Robert Baynham of Chorewell, the Forrest of Dean.  Henceforth this family were so known (vide Visitation of Gloucestershire, 1623, p 14;  Harleian Society). The name looks wonderfully English and local, but, as shown, is not so.

Beynon, Binyon and Benyon, q.v., are other forms; but not Bunyan, I think.  

(Dictionary of English & Welsh Surnames, Bardsley, G.W. 1980)

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