Byne Family History

From a lost settlement known as Byne, perhaps denoting a place where woodbine or honeysuckle grew, from Middle English bind ‘clinging plant’. There was one in West Grinstead (Sussex) whose name survives in Bines Farm and Bines Gate in West Grinstead and Bines Green in neighbouring Ashurst.

Some of the following post-medieval early bearers may alternatively belong under (2).

Variant of Binn in either sense.