This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Hasting' (v. Yonge); compare Browning, Harding, &c.

Hasting Moyse, Somerset, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

William Hastinge, Oxfordshire, ibid.

(a) Local, 'of Hastings,' in Sussex, the principal of the Cinque ports.

Henry de Hastinge, Bedfordshire, 1273 A. Richard Hastings, Cambridgeshire, ibid.

The entry above may belong to (1).

Henry de Hastinges, Northamptonshire, ibid.

1668. Married — Thomas Hastinges and Elizabeth Martin: St. James, Clerkenwell.

1799. — Maurice Lenthall and Mary Hastings: St. George, Hanover Square.

The old Scottish family of Hastings were a branch of the English family of that name settled in Scotland during the reign of William the Lion, from whom they obtained a grant of the lands of Dun in Angus (Caledonia, II, p. 592). Johanne de Hastinge, lord of Dun and sheriff and forester of the Mearns, c. 1178, witnessed a confirmation charter by Turpin, bishop of Brechin, c. 1178—98 (REB., II, 257). He also witnessed a confirmation charter by the king of the church of Aberrotheven to Inchaffray, c. 1199—1200, and was still alive in 1210 (Inchaffray, p. 4. 265). As John de Hastinkes he was juror in a dispute regarding the Kirketun of Aberbruthenoth in 1206 (SCM., V, p. 210). His son David de Hastinges married Forflissa or Fernelith, countess of Atholl and succeeded in her right to the earldom in 1242 (Inchaffray, p. 265). Adam de Hastenge witnessed the confirmation of the church of Dunin to Inchaffray c. 1203—4 (ibid., p. 21), and as Adam de Hastinges he witnessed the gift of the land of Okelffas to the canons of Holyrood a. 1214 (LSC., p. 213). He "had from King William a gift of the lands of Kingledoors in Tweeddale, which he afterwards gave to Arnbroath Abbey" (Inchaffray, p. 271). Johannes de Hasting was one of the witnesses to a charter by William the Lion dated at Forfar, a. 1214, and David de Hasting witnessed a charter by Alexander II of a fishing in the thanage of Scon in 1234 (Scon, p. 22, 41). William, son of Robert de Hastings, witnessed the gift of a stone of wax yearly to the church of Glasgow in 1233 (REG., p. 101), and Sir Robert de Hastangg was sheriff of Roxburgh in 1298 (Bain, II, 1007). Some Harestanes have changed to Hastings.

HASTAN: Of local origin from the island of Hestan in the parish of Rerrick, Kirkcudbrightshire. John Hastan was resident in the parish of Borgue, and William Hastine and Thomas Hastan were residents in the parish of Senneck, 1684 (RPC., 3. ser. IX, p. 567,569). Janet Hasten is recorded in Torphichen, 1712 (Torphichen).

That the town of Hastings, co. Sussex, the chief of the Cinque-Ports, derived its name from one Hasting, is evident from the Bayeux Tapestry, where it is styled Hestenga-ceastra, "the fortification of Hasting." Whether he was the well-known Northman pirate is, however, but matter of conjecture. The noble families of this surname are descended from Robert de Hastings, portreeve of that town, and steward to king William the Conqueror, (Collins' Peerage,) hut it is possible that others may be of different origin, and that their name is a direct derivation or patronymic of Hasting, the personal name.

Local. Derived from the borough of Hastings, in Sussex, England, which is memorable for the landing of William the Conqueror, and defeat and death of Harold II., in 1066. Camden derives this name from one Hastings, a Dane, a great robber, who either seized, or built, or fortified it. Somnerus derives it from the Saxon haeste, heat, because of the bubbling or boiling of the sea in that place; but as haste applies rather to voluntary beings, as men and other animals, the name more correctly signifies one who hurries, presses, drives; vehemency, quickness of motion.