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Lamb
English
The surmname Lamb is of English origin. It was a nickname for a meek and inoffensive person. The word nickname is derived from "an eke-name" or added name, and since surnames originated as added names for help in identification, all surnames are, in a sense, nicknames. The name may also be a menonymic occupational name for a keeper of lambs, from Middle English, Old English 'lamb'. It may also have been a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of the paschal lamb, though surnames derived from house signs are less common in England than in Germany and central Europe. The name may also be a short form of the given name Lambert; composed of the Germanic elements 'land', land, territory and 'berht', bright, famous. A native Old English name 'Landbeorht' is attested, and seems to have survived the Norman Conquest, when it was ...
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BlazonLamb
1. Coat of arms of family: Lamb
Language of the text: English
Argent a chevron engrailed gules between three paschal lambs passant sable. Crest-A lion rampant.
Blazon of family Lamb in England. Source of the Blazon: "The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales" by Sir Bernard Burke, London 1884.
Sable, a fesse or, between three cinquefoils ermine chargend with a lion passant gules between, two mullets of the field. Crest: a demi lion gules, collared or, holding inhis dexter paw a mullet sable.
Blazon of family Lamb in Barham co. Sulfolk (granted 3 july 1559). Source of the Blazon: "The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales" by Sir Bernard Burke, London 1884.
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