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Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 4349 people with the Chisholm surname? In that year Chisholm was ranked number 975 for popularity in the UK.

"Descended from Harald Chisholm, Thane of Orkney, Caithness and Shetland, temp. William the Lion. "_{(The origin and signification of Scottish surnames. Clifford Stanley Sims, 1862)}

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"CHISHOLM, CHISHOLME. An old Border family deriving their name from the barony of Chisholm in the parish of Roberton, Roxburghshire. The name occurs but seldom in early Scots records. The first of the name recorded is John de Chesehehne, mentioned in a bull of Pope Alexander rv, 1254. John de Chesolm of Berwickshire, and Richard de Chesehehne of Roxburghshire rendered homage in 1296. The seal of the latter bears on a heater shield, a boar's head, couped, contoum6, dropping blood, and S' Ricardi de Cheishelm (Bain, n, p. 199, 207, 531). Inquisition was made in 1315 into the lands and fishings of John de Cheseholm in Paxton and Tweed (Bain, iii, 461), and Robert de Chesholm is mentioned in an action against the burgh of Dundee, 1348 (RAA., n, 22). By the middle of the fourteenth century members of the family had made their way to the North, and in 1359 Robert de Chesholme appears as sheriff of Inverness, and an Alexander de Chesseholme is there also (ER., i, p. 569, 570). Robert de Chesholme was custodian of the Castle of Vrchard (ER., n, p. 143), and in 1369 he is mentioned as dominus de Quarelwode in Moray (REM., p. 169). John de Sheshelm was admitted burgess of Aberdeen in 1439 (NSCM., i, p. 5), and three members of the family of Chisholrn of Cromlix held the bishopric of Dunblane in the sixteenth century ( (Dowden). In 1499 certain individuals were put to the hom for the slaughter of Harrald of Schlescheme, dwelling in Straglas (OPS., n, p. 527). It is interesting to note that so late as 1512 the territorial form "of Chessam" was still in use in the North (Cawdor, p. 126). Weyland Chishohn had his lands of Comer in Strathglass erected into a barony in 1513. John Cheshehn of Kinereis in record, 1603 (Rec. Inv., n, p. 14), Walter Chishohn of that Ilk was bailie of regality of Melrose, 1605 (RRM., i, p. 1), and Alexander Cheshom was a private in the Reay Fencibles, 1795 (Scobie, p. 371). The Gaelic form of Chishohn is Siosal, and collectively the clan is known as An Siosalach. The Highland Chisholms were also sometimes distinguished from the Lowland Chisholms as An Siosalach Glaiseach, the Chisholms of Strathglass. Chehelme 1376, Cheishame 1508, Cheisholme 1626, Chesame 1511, Cheshelme 1480, Cheseim 1527, Chesim 1506, Chesolme 1522, Chesom 1531, Chesome 1511, Chessame 1480, Chisolm 1721, Chisolme 1674, Chisomme 1562, Chissem 1544, Chissolme 1670, Schescheme 1499, Schisholme 1642, Schisolme and Schisome 1675, Shisholme 1650, Schishome 1650, Scykklaw (for =lam) 1361. In Antrim the name has become Chism. "_{(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)}

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