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Origin / History of the Diment Name

Of Anglo-Saxon origin, this interesting surname is from ‘Dayman’, an Olde English pre 7^th Century personal and occupational name.  The first element ‘day’ derives from ‘deye’ a keeper of livestock and in a 1363 statute we find enumerated ‘cow-herds, shepherds, swine-herds, dyes and all other keepers of livestock’.  The suffix ‘man(n)’ was often added to an occupational name; hence ‘the keeper of animals’. The surname is first recorded in the early half of the 13^th Century: Dayman Buntyng is registered in Cambridgeshire in 1221; Stephen Deyman is found in the 1224 ‘Pipe Rolls of Buckinghamshire’; Thomas Dymande is noted in the 1332 Subsidy Rolls of Surrey; Robert Dymond appears in the 1379 Poll Tax Returns of Yorkshire; and Margaret Dimond married Thomas Kingston 1695 in London..The excrescent ‘t’ or ‘d’ was not in widespread use before the 17^th Century.  In the modern idiom the surname has many variant spellings, including Deman, Demant, Diamond, Dimant, Diment, and Dyment.

Coat of Arms / Crest
A Coat of Arms is bestowed upon individuals, not families.  They are not transferable, but may be handed down and derived by family members.

A Coat of Arms granted to the Dimont family depicts three red mullets on a silver shield. On the Crest is a cross crosslet in pale surmounted by a diagonal arrow pointing downwards. However it is unlikely this crest is associated with this line of Diments.

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