Chisholm (surname)

Chisholm (/ˈɪzəm/ (listen)) is a Scottish surname. The original name was 'De Chesé' to which the Saxon termination 'holme' was added on the marriage of a Norman ancestor with a Saxon heiress. [1] The first recorded person of the name is a John de Chisholme, who is named in 1254 in a bull of Pope Alexander IV and found in the County of Roxburgh [1] The original Chisholms are said to have "came soon after the conquest, A.D. 1066 from Tindale, England. In the 14th century, members of the Chisholm family migrated into the Scottish Highlands and their name was Gaelicised.[2] The Scottish Gaelic form of the name is Siosal (masculine),[3] and Shiosal (feminine).

Chisholm
Origin
Language(s)Norman, Old English
Region of originScotland
Other names
Variant form(s)Siosal; Shiosal Scottish Gaelic

List of people with the surname

In Australia

In Canada

In the United Kingdom

In the United States

Other places

Variant spellings

Chisum

  • John Chisum (1824–1884), American cattle baron
    • Chisum (film), a 1970 American Western film

Chisholme

Chisolm

  • Richard Chisolm, cinematographer and film-maker based in Baltimore, Maryland

Chism

Mainly in South Texas

Chisom

Chisam

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See also

  • Chisholm (disambiguation)
  • Aeneas Chisholm (disambiguation)
  • Alexander Chisholm (disambiguation)
  • Anthony Chisholm (disambiguation)
  • Chisholm (disambiguation)
  • Colin Chisholm (disambiguation)
  • George Chisholm (disambiguation)
  • John Chisholm (disambiguation)
  • Margaret Chisholm (disambiguation)

References

  1. Alexander MacKenzie. "History of the Chisholms with genealogies of the principal families of the name" (PDF). Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  2. "Learn about the family history of your surname". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 25 September 2010. which cited Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508137-4. for the surname "Chisholm".
  3. Mark, Colin (2006), The Gaelic-English Dictionary, London: Routledge, p. 722, ISBN 0-203-22259-8
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