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Coram Family History

This interesting and unusual name is of Medieval English origin and is a variant of Corham a locational name from a so called 'lost' village, likely to have once been situated in Devon, which is suggested by the fact that the recordings are numerous in that county. Coram is a derivation of the Old English pre 7th century 'corn', corn (the grain) and 'hamm', a low lying meadow. The phenomenon of the 'lost' village was generally a result of enforced land clearance, to make way for sheep pasture in the 12th and 13th Centuries, as well as more natural causes, such as plague, war, etc., and it is estimated that there are between seven and ten thousand such villages that have disappeared from British maps.