Yarnall Genealogy


DeKyne Tree Connection
OTHER CONNECTIONS

Some people have said the name originated in Nottingham, England and was also spelled Dekayne. A Robin DeaKyne or Robert DeKyme was recorded as living in England in the 13th century. Sir Walter Scott wrote about this person as being Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest. Some people claim Deacon was the original name. The Deacons and the Dekaynes both came from England.

By the time the family came to America in the 1600s, the name was variously spelled, Deakin, Dakeyne, and DeaKyne.

Three surnames listed in Nottinham in 2014 are Deakin, Daykin, and Dakeyne.

Ruth Grace DeKyne married Vincent Cheverelli in 1930 and one of their three daughters, Pauline Anne (Polly), married Thomas (Tom) Vincent Yarnall Jr. in 1958. Both weddings were on June 28th.		 Rumor has it that the first DeaKyne to come to America was a navigator on a ship that brought William Penn to America. Penn made two trips - 1682 and 1698.

There was a George DeaKyne recorded as living in New Castle, DE in 1702. Perhaps it is the one born in England in 1660.

The DeaKynes settled in the Appoquinimink area of America in what became part of the state of Delaware on land between Blackbird Creek and Duck Creek along the Delaware River.

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Ruth Grace DeKyne Cheverelli kept a framed copy of an early map of that area with red circles penciled around the ancestral Deakyne names of land owners.

We also have a 1909 picture of the DeKyne sisters.

The town called Aken by the Dutch, Aix by the French, and Aachen by the Germans is where Charlemagne lived in 800. Roman soldiers built spas there. Before the 1871 unification of Germany it was an imperial city. Some say the name of DeaKyne has two parts. The "De" means from. The "akin" means the town of Aachen or Aken.

We have multiple ethnicity options:
  1. In 1248 William II from the Netherlands conquered the area.
  2. In 1802 Napoleon of France conquered the area.
  3. In 1815 the land was under control of Prussia.
  4. From 1918 to 1929 it was part of Belgium.
  5. In 2014 it is located in Germany.
We have two main "origin theories" for the name. The name could be French or German origin. I have no verifiable clue of the real origin for these ancestors.
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