HYDER

HYDER. Under the feudal system, the tenant of a hide of laud (see Hyde) was called a hidarius — whence Hyder. See Hale's St. Paul's Domesda}-, p. xxv. Sometimes it may be equivalent to Skinner.

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