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Behind the name Lumsdend is a story that begins in the ancient Scottish-English border region among the clans of the Boernician tribe. The Lumsdend family lived in the parish of Coldingham, Berwickshire. They derived their name from the name of their manor, Lumsden. The name means Lumm's Valley in Old English, from the personal name Lumm.
The surname Lumsdend was first found in Berwickshire an ancient county of Scotland, presently part of the Scottish Borders Council Area, located in the eastern part of the Borders Region of Scotland, where they held a family seat from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Lumsdend research. Another 149 words (11 lines of text) covering the years 1166, 1188, 1296, 1328, 1350, 1598 and 1660 are included under the topic Early Lumsdend History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Before the printing press and the first dictionaries appeared, names and other words were often spelled differently every time they were written. Lumsdend has appeared under the variations Lumsden, Lumsdane, Lummsdaine, Lammestone and many more.
Another 36 words (3 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Lumsdend Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
The Scots who crossed the Atlantic were often on the run from poverty as well as persecution. They brought little with them, and often had nothing of their home country to hand down to their children. In the 20th century, Clan societies and other patriotic Scottish organizations have helped the ancestors of Boernician Scots to recover their lost national legacy. Many of those families went on to make significant contributions to the rapidly developing colonies in which they settled. Early North American records indicate many people bearing the name Lumsdend were among those contributors: Henry Lumsden, who settled in Maryland in 1715; James Lumsden settled in Virginia in 1774.