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Lumbee Indian Related Surnames

Recorded on the 1790 North Carolina Census Index

Martin Surname

1. English, Scottish, Irish, French, Dutch, German, Czech, Slovak, Spanish (Martín), Italian (Venice), etc.: from a personal name (Latin Martinus, a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’). This was borne by a famous 4th-century saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. As a North American surname, this form has absorbed many cognates from other European forms.
2. English: habitational name from any of several places so called, principally in Hampshire, Lincolnshire, and Worcestershire, named in Old English as ‘settlement by a lake’ (from mere or mær ‘pool’, ‘lake’ + tun ‘settlement’) or as ‘settlement by a boundary’ (from (ge)mære ‘boundary’ + tun ‘settlement’). The place name has been charged from Marton under the influence of the personal name Martin.  Source 

NAME COUNTY LOCALE SERIES ROLL PART PAGE
? Martin MECKLENBURG      SALISBURY DIST M637 7 2 364
Aaron Martin WAYNE NEWBERN DIST M637 7 2 467
Abraham Martin ANSON      FAYETTE DIST M637 7 2 193
Abraham Martin STOKES   SALISBURY DIST M637 7 1 548
Abraham Martin WAKE HILLSBOROUGH DIST M637 7 1 249
Aaron Martin WAYNE NEWBERN DIST M637 7 2 467
Abraham Martin ANSON      FAYETTE DIST M637 7 2 193
Abraham Martin STOKES   SALISBURY DIST M637 7 1 548
Abraham Martin WAKE HILLSBOROUGH DIST M637 7 1 249

Source: New US Census Collection:

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