Hems Family History
Hems Name Meaning
from Hem in Westley (Shrops) or one of several other small places so called in Shrops or from Hem (Montgomerys) with excrescent -(e)s added in post-medieval times. The place-names derive from Old English hemm ‘border boundary’.for someone who lived by a border Middle English hem(e) hemme ‘hem edge boundary'. The final -s may derive from an original plural.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016