The English surname Hines is an occupational name for a servant, from the Middle English term  hine meaning “lad or servant” (originally a collective term for a body of servants, from an Old English plural noun, hiwan meaning “household.”) The name is most frequently found in the southwestern part of England. The name is fistr recorded in Oxfordshire in 1254 when Robert Hine was recorded. The earliest record of the name in the New World is in 1629 when William Hines landed in Virginia. 

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