Origin of the name in
England
The Oxman name seems to
occur at an early date in several places in England.
The first Oxman I have found is Johannes
Oxeman in Kent in 1201.
There are Oxmans living near London
as early as 1552.
There are Oxmans in Lincolnshire
by 1563 and also more mentioned in Kent.
In 1625 there are Oxmans in Bodmin, Cornwall.
In 1630 the name appears in Ashburton Devon.
By 1649 there is at least one Oxman in Suffolk. |
| Other similar names - Oxnam & Oxenham The name is confused at times with the Oxnam name, which
originates in the Cornwall / Devon area, and so I have had to keep records of some Oxnam
as well. I have found several instances of Oxnams being referred to as Oxman. At least one
current Oxman family were called Oxnam as recently as the early 1900s.
Oxnam is sometimes said to be a corruption of Oxenham.
For more details on the Oxnam and Oxenham name see :
Peter Oxenham's site www.oxnam.org
Paul Oxenham's site www.oxenham.org
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Searching for the Oxman name
I have searched all the common records in the UK
for occurances of the Oxman name including the Birth, marriage and death indexes and the
census records as well as the Mormon IGI records of Parish registers. |
Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes
I have gone through all the birth,
death and marriage records from 1837
to 1994 at St Catherine's House in London, and in them I have found records of 120 births,
92 marriages and 89 deaths. That's 157 years worth of books, normally there are 4 books to
a year for each type of record making about 1,884 books of records checked! |
Census Records From
the Census records I have only found 9 people in the 1851 census,
4 in the 1871 census (you need addresses to find them which accounts for the low numbers)
and 17 in the 1881 census for which there is an index (although not yet for Middlesex /
London where I know several lived). |
| Mormon Records The
Latter Day Saints lists of births and marriages from parish registers in the UK show
records of 98 christenings and 39 marriages in England since 1552. |
Earliest Oxmans
I have also found
references to documents back in the 1200s that mention 2 more Oxmans.
Johannes Oxeman is mentioned in the Curia Regis Rolls in 1201.
Richard le Oxeman is mentioned in the Cheshire Assize
Rolls in 1289. As yet I have not got copies of this documents to find out any details
about him. |
Contemporary Oxmans
As far as current family members go, the BT
telephone directories only show 19 addresses in England. I know a number of people must be
ex-directory as I believe that there are about 48 people with the name alive in the UK at
the moment. |
Heraldry
There is an Oxman coat of arms :
"Argent, a lion gules, rampant regardant".
i.e. a red lion standing on his hind legs, looking over
his shoulder, on a white background.
I have not yet established who this coat of arms
belonged to or whether anyone is still entitled to it. |
Oxman Place Names
There is an Oxman Lane in Milton Keynes. However
it appears to be named after the occupation rather than an individual. The street name was
adopted on 26th April 1983. and there are others nearby with rural occupation names |
| As a
result of my researches, I can track the Oxmans in my family over 8 generations to the
late 1700s. |
| If you
are an Oxman, contact me by e-mail and let me know who you are and some of your ancestry.
I may be able to trace your ancestry further back from some of the information I have
already gathered. |
