Where does the surname Hayler mean and come from?

Question:

Where does the surname Hayler mean and come from?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I've found some possibly conflicting meanings, due to changes in spellings probably since most ordinary people pre-Victorian couldn't read or write:

1. Derived from "healer" - obvious meaning
2. (Old English), derived from Hallier, Hellier, Helliar, Hellyer, Helyer, Hillier, - a roof tiler, from the verb "to hill" which meant "to cover"
3. (from Latin) Hillary, Hailary. Meaning someone cheerful
4. (from Old English) Hurley, meaning "a wood or clearing"

Doubtless someone will come up with some more possibilities. Looks as though you need to get back some way to find how your ancestors had it written for them in the old Registers.
Sorry I couldn't have found something more positive for you. It comes from London and was given to folk who constantly flag down taxis. Look it up at www.one-name.org The Mormons,
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/f...
have 200+ entries, many from England but a number from what is now Germany, too, including Agnes here:

93. Agnes Hayler
Birth: About 1530 Of, Nuertingen, Schwarzwaldkreis, Wuerttemberg

My favarite name meaning site didn't have it.

http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~cr...
isn't as reputable as the Oxford Press, but they have no reason to lie. They say
HAYLER= a carrier or porter (old french haler= to pull)

http://www.navybuddies.com/dd/dd997.htm...
is about the USS HAYLER, named for an officer who won a Navy Cross, the US Navy's second highest award for valor.

Here is something to think about:
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Every time I answer a "Surname Origin?" question, I think of the joke:

Man sees a sign, "Olaf Olafson, Chinese Restaurant". He goes in, orders a plate of chow mein, asks the Chinese gentleman behind the counter who is Olaf. Chinese gentleman says, "Me! There I was at Ellis Island. The man in front of me was a Swede, six foot four, broad shoulders, red beard. They ask him 'Name?' he says 'Olaf Olafson', in a voice that makes the pens rattle in their holders. Off he goes to seek his fortune. They ask me 'Name?', I say 'Sam Ting', and here I am."

Seriously, you should have 16 surnames among your great great grandparents, unless you double up on Smith, Johnson, Miller or Jones or someone married a cousin.

If you are in the USA and trace your family tree, you might find an immigrant who came through Ellis Island yearning to be free, a bootlegger, a flapper, a great uncle who died in the muddy trenches of France in 1917. You may find someone who marched off to fight in the Civil War (Maybe two, one wearing blue, one wearing grey). You may find a German who became Pennsylvania "Dutch", a Huguenot, an Irish "Potato Famine" immigrant. You might find someone who married at 18 and supported his family with musket, plow and axe in the howling wilderness we now call Ohio.

In the UK your chances of finding a homesteader are less, but your chances of finding that great uncle who served in WWI are better.

In Australia you may find someone who got a free ride to a new home, courtesy of the benevolent Government and HM Prison ship "Hope".

Your grandfather with that surname may have married a Scot, a Sioux, a Swede. HIS father, a stolid, dull protestant, may have married an Italian with flashing dark eyes, the first woman on the block to serve red wine in jelly glasses and use garlic in her stew. You'll never know if this is the only question you ask.