What's in a Name?!

My mother was interested in genealogy, but neither Terry nor I have done any genealogical research. In spite of this, Terry has recently come across a few references to his last name, Hutchins.

A few months ago, he received a letter from a stranger. The letter was a request for information about the Ontario Hutchins family tree. The sender wanted to provide this information as a birthday gift to her mother, whose last name had been Hutchins.

We checked the genealogical information given to us by one of Terry's relatives.

Sorry, we're not part of the Ontario branch of the family, Terry wrote back. My roots are in Quebec... 

His paternal grandfather had been part of a large family born and raised in Quebec.

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One of our Christmas gifts from our daughter this year was this family crest tea towel... But the name on it is Macdonald, not Hutchins!

When I into the family crest shop to buy it, our daughter explained, they told me that the family name Hutchins is part of the Macdonald clan... So this is our family crest... I guess...

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I was thinking of you recently, Terry's childhood friend, John Vaudry, told him when we visited him and his wife recently. A Presbyterian church minister, John is an avid reader of  theology and church history books.

I was reading that the great Bible translator, William Tyndale, was sometimes known as William Hitchins (which is probably a form of Hutchins). When his enemies wanted to insult him, they called him Hitchins. Otherwise, he went by the name Tyndale.

Is Terry related to this poor man who was executed five hundred years ago for translating the Latin Bible into English, the language of the people...?

I wonder: Do genealogical DNA tests provide this kind of information?!