Post by pureginius on Jun 26, 2009 15:26:11 GMT -6
Tradition states that the Chisholms were a Norman family who arrived in England after the Norman conquest of 1066. The original Norman name being De Chese to which the Saxon term "Holme" was added upon the marraige of a Norman ancestor to a Saxon heiress. In early records the name is written as "de Cheseholme", eventually later becoming "Chisholm". In Scotland the earliest recorded person of the family is on the Ragman Rolls as "Richard de Chisholm del Counte de Rokesburgh", refering to the Clan Chisholm's seat in Roxburghshire.