Publisher's Synopsis
Volume 4: Origin of the Names Pinney, Pine, and Pinn is the fourth of a six-volume series of the Norman family of Pin, closely related to Beaumont of Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure. This volume explores how De Pinmdeveloped into their three name forms. Pinney, Pine, and then Pinn. Contrary to intuition, Pinney arose first. Previous volumes explore the life of this Norman family pre- and post- Conquest and their early holdings in Devon and Cornwall; subsequent volumes follow the Pinney line to Thorncombe, Dorset; to Broadway, Somerset; and then to New England in 1633 and Nevis in 1686.
