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ALDERMAN



Origin: English

Coat of Arms: Blue with a gold sun in splendour.

Crest: Description not available

Origin: English

Spelling variations include: Aldreman, Alderman, Elderman, Aelderman and others.

First found in Lincolnshire in eastern England. The name was recorded as holding lands in that county in the Domesday Book (1086), a census taken by King William after his conquest of England in 1066.

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Grace Alderman, who arrived at the age of 22 in Virginia in 1635; soon after the Plymouth settlement, and Peter Alderman, aged 32 arrived in Boston in 1820.

  Alderman Southern English: status name from Middle English alderman, Old English ealdorman, literally ‘elder’. In medieval England an alderman was a member of the governing body of a city or borough; also the head of a guild.



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