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acknowledge the source of any information used from these pages. 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 13th 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. Click on Surname to go to the Family Sheet
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