not the name of a heroic warrior i suppose,
Now that isn't a given here Jon.
Harri/Harry could have been the 'man' of some heroic warrior, (King Harry?) saved his life in an herioc battle and earned himself a coat of arms. 
The voyage into family history is an adventure.
I will live in high hopes that this is the case
Thankyou for all your info, a great turn-out.
Harriman appears to be a mainly Leicester name according to the "Surname Atlas" of the 1881 Census. There were a total of 769 Harriman in the census, and the largest numbers in the English Counties were;
Leicestershire 219 (or 68 per thousand of the population of Leicestershire)
Staffordshire 107
Nottinghamshire 88
Derbyshire 48
and by by Poor Law Unions in Leicestershire were
Loughborough 86
Barrow upon Soar 47
Lutterworth 19
There were 111 Harryman of which 87 were in Kent, or 78%, and none in the main Harriman areas
Poor Law Unions
KEN Malling 37
KEN Hoo 12
KEN Tunbridge 10
LND Lewisham 10
LND Greenwich 9
KEN Maidstone 7
Stan
I see, quite a large community of Harrimans in Leicestershire. Where me and most of my immediate family were born and raised.
