Surname Definition: See 'Family Crest' below.

Origins: Scottish and French.

Alternate spellings: HAY, HAYE, HAYA, MACGARAIDH, LAHAIE, LAHAY, LAHAYE, LAHAY, LEHAYE, LAHAISE, LAHAIS, HAI, HAIE, HAISE, and HAEYE.

Surnames sharing the same soundex code: HEY, HIE, HOEY, HOW, HOWE, HOWEY, HOWIE, HOY, HOYE, HUEY, HUIE, and HY.

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• Family Crest
• HAY Family Genealogy Forum
• LAHAISE Family Genealogy Forum
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• LAHAYE Family Genealogy Forum
• over 71,000 search results for HAY at Rootsweb
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• over 15,000 search results for HAY at GenCircles
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• over 5,900 search results for HAY at TribalPages
• USA Death Records
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• FamilySearch - The largest collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy records in the world
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• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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• CertificateSharing – free sharing of Birth, Baptism, Marriage and Death Certificates in English language only
• Access Genealogy’s Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania search engine
• The Ryerson Index to Contemporary Death Notices and Obituaries in Australian Newspapers
• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• National Archives of Australia
• State Records Office, New South Wales, Australia
• Public Record Office, Victoria, Australia
• Archives of New Zealand
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
• Auckland City Libraries – family history resources, New Zealand
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography online
• Search Family Home Pages at FamilyTreeMaker
• Search Encyclopaedia Titanica – Titanic Passenger and Crew Research
• Clan STEWART of Scotland - Associated with MacGaraidh

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