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Note: Valentine worked as a laborer on the farm of Daniel Film in Centre County, Gregg Township PA. he was 22 years old at the time, the 1850 census was taken. Baney is an ancient Pictish-Scottish name. It is derived from the Gaelic word Beathan or betha which means life. Bean was also the name of a saint in the Breviary of Aberdeen. According to the Venerable Bede, the "Father of English History" who was born in 673, the Pictish race, one of the founding races of the British Isles, arrived in Scotland from Brittany about the 15th century B.C. From France the Picts had sailed northward to Ireland. The ancient Monarchies of Ireland refused them permission to land, but they were allowed to settle in the eastern part of Scotland on condition that all their Kings marry an Irish Princess. This established a matriarchal hierarchy, first in the annals of British history. The family name Baney is believed to be descended from this source. Nechtan was the first recorded Pictish King about 724 A.D., although, according to Roman history, many Pictish kings before him had fought gallantly at Hadrian's Wall against the Roman invasion many centuries before. From the north, after the year 900, the Picts were invaded by the Orcadian Vikings who penetrated as far south as Caithness, and they were left with a territory on the eastern coast of Scotland from Aberdeen, south to Edinburgh. From some of the many early documents researchers examined such records as the Inquisitio, 1120 A.D., the Black Book of the Exchequer, the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, The Ragman Rolls, the Chronicles of the Picts and Scots, and various other cartularies of parishes in Scotland. From these archives they produced the early records of the name in Invemessshire, where they had been seated from ancient times, long before the Norman Conquest of 1066. The surname Baney was found in many different forms and spellings. From time to time the surname was spelt Bean, Beane, Beyn, Bayn, Bene, Bane, Baine, Beine, Bayne, Beyne, Been, Beaine, MacBain, MacBean, MacVain, MacBean, MaeVan, MacBheathain (Gaelic) and some of these versions are still used today. These changes in spelling frequently occurred, even between father and son. One clanswoman on record was born with one spelling of her name, married with another and died with yet another. Scribes and church people frequently selected their own version of what they thought the spelling should be. The family name Baney emerged as aNotable amongst the Clan at this time was Gillie MacBean and The Bain of Tulloch. Scotland, during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, was ravaged by religious conflict. The newly found passionate fervour of Presbyterianism and the Church of Scotland rejected all who could not pass "The Test" of taking an oath of belief in the Church. Those failing the "Test" were sometimes burnt at the stake or, more kindly, banished to Australia, the Carolinas or the West Indies. Many Clansmen were freely "encouraged" to migrate to Ireland. Families migrated from Scotland to Ireland with promises of cheap Irish land. They became known as the "Scotch/Irish." In Ireland their name became McVan and MacVean, settling in Carlaw and Galway. The migration or banishment to the New World also continued, some went voluntarily from Ireland, but most went directly from Scotland, their home territories. Some even moved to the European continent. They sailed to the New World across the storiny Atlantic aboard the small sailing ships known as the "White Sails," ships such as the Hector, the Rambler and the Dove. These overcrowded ships, sometimes spending two months at sea, were racked with disease, sometimes landing with only 60% of their original passenger lists. In North America, some of the first migrants which could be considered kinsmen of the surname Baney, or having a variation of the family surname spelling were Alexander Bean who settled in Georgia in 1775; Duncan Bean who settled in Jamaica in 1716; Alexander Bain who settled in Maryland in 1774; John Baine settled in south Carolina in 1716; William Bane settled in Maryland in 1716; Martha Banes settled in Boston in 1635; Alexander Bayne settled in Boston in 1820. James Bain who settled in New York in 1774, but perhaps the most important settler was the Clan Chief who esta 'blished Glen Bain in Saskatchewan, Canada. The Chieftainship of the Clan was recently passed to the present Chief who lives just outside New York City. From the original ports of entry the immigrants moved westward, some to the middle west, some across the prairies to the west coast. During the American War of Independence some remained loyal to the cause, whilst others became United Empire Loyalists and moved north to Canada. Many prominent people were a part of this notable name, MacBean of MacBean, Clan Chief, now residing in the U.S.A.; Professor Andrew Bain, Economist; Cyril Bain, Physician; John Bain, Director of Education.
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