Orins of the surname Heasman?

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Orins of the surname Heasman?

Like a lot of people I have been drawn into thinking about family history and I am interested in the origins of the name Heasman it seems odd that it appears to have been around a long time yet is still relatively rare and concentrated in the south east of the UK

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This most interesting surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a topographical name
for "a dweller in the brushwood", derived from the Olde English pre 7th century elements
"haess", brushwood, and "mann", man; hence "man from the brushwood". The surname
may also have originated from the medieval given name "Hay", from the Olde English
nickname "Heah", meaning tall, with "mann", which in this case means "servant of", or
"Heah's man". The Olde English "haes", is also found in the placenames Hayes (Kent
and Middlesex), Hays (Sussex), Heaseland, and Heasewood Farm (Sussex).
Topographical surnames were among the earliest created, since both natural and man-
made features in the landscape provided easily recognisable distinguishing names in the
small communities of the Middle Ages. Variants of the surname in the modern idiom
include Heaseman, Hayesman, Easman and Atheis. Hayesman and Easeman are both
found in Kent. Hugh de la Heise is recorded in 1197, in the Eynsham Cartulary
(Oxford). William son of Henery and Ann Heasman, was christened on April 20th,
1698 at St. Paul's, Convent Garden, Westminster, London. The first recorded spelling
of the family name is shown to be that of
Simon le Heysman, which was dated
1275, in the "Hundred Rolls of Norfolk", during the reign of
King Edward 1, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307.