HONEYMAN

HONEYMAN. Li old times when mead or metheglin was a favourite beverage, and when sugar was unknown in England, the propagation of bees, aud the jroduction of hone}', furnished employment for many persons ; aud hence the surnames Beeman and Honeyman. Honeman, Honiman, H.R. See Beeman.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.