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Origin / History of the Plumb Name

This surname has two possible derivations.  Firstly, it may be of Anglo-Saxon origin, as a topographical name for someone who lived by a plum tree, from the Olde word ‘plume’, meaning plum tree.  Alternatively, it may be of Old French origin, as a metonymic occupational name for a plumber, from the Old French ‘plomb’, itself from the Latin ‘plumbum’, meaning lead.  This was later assimilated to the Old French ‘plummier’, a plumber.  Other surnames from this source include Plum, Plumbe and Plum(p)tre(e). The surname itself is first recorded from the early 13^th Century with one Geoffrey Plumbe appearing in the ‘Charter Rolls of Suffolk’, 1208; while one Simon Plumbe is mentioned in 1251, in Records of the Abbey of Ramsey, Huntingdonshire; John Ploumbe is noted in the Subsidy Rolls of Suffolk in 1327; and Ralph Ploome is listed in 1327 in the Subsidy Rolls of Derbyshire.  Early church records show: Lendall Plome was christened in 1580, at St. Michael's, Cornhill, London; and a John Plumb married Ann Gabrill in 1664, at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, Westminster, London.

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