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KINMAN Family History

This interesting name is of Scottish origin, and is a locational surname, from either of two places. It may be from Kinmont, a place in the lordship of Methven in Perthshire, or it may be a variant of "Kinman" which is a shortened form of Kininmonth, the name of two places in Fife. Also, Kinman itself may in some instances derive from an occupational name for "a royal-man", from the Olde English pre 7th Century "cyneman" (recorded only once, circa 770, in Worcester), or more likely it may mean "a herdsman", from the Olde English elements "cyna" and "mann". The surname itself first appears in the mid 13th Century (see below)...