Slocumb History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Slocumb family

Early History of the Slocumb family

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Slocumb Spelling Variations

Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Slocumb family name include Slocum, Slowcombe, Slocombe, Slocum, Slocumb and others.

Early Notables of the Slocumb family

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Slocumb Ranking

In the United States, the name Slocumb is the 17,550^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Migration of the Slocumb family

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Slocumb surname or a spelling variation of the name include: Giles Slocum, already mentioned; Peleg Slocum settled in west New Jersey in 1664; G. S. and J. R. Slocum arrived in San Francisco in 1850; William Slocum arrived in Savannah, Georgia in 1820.