Lyman Family History
Lyman Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow
or a patch of arable land (see Layman).Dutch: from a
Germanic personal name composed of the elements liut ‘people’,
or possibly liub ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + man ‘man’.Americanized form of German Leimann, Americanized form of
Leinemann, habitational name for someone from Leine in
Pomerania, or for someone who lived by either of two rivers called
Leine, near Hannover and in Saxony.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lyman
Name Distribution of Lyman Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lyman families
 34 - 66  12 - 33 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lyman families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lyman census records
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Lyman Family Origin
Lyman Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Lyman Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Lyman census records
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Military Service by Lyman
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