STEEDMAN

[Leanne]

Hello all,
I have been unable to link the surname STEEDMAN to a clan or sept.
Would anyone happen to know if there is a clan affiliation? Just beginning
my research in Scotland.
Thank You !!
Leanne Mitchell

[RMBlack]

No...but that is no bad thing I think in your particular search.
The information in GFBlacks Book is much more specific than that.

STEDMAN, Steedman, Studman.
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From provincial English 'stead', a farmhouse and offices +man.
Symon le Stedeman was received to the English king's peace
in 1321. Steidman is found in Angus, 1505.
Charles Studeman was 'ciuk at the Canongate port@, Edinburgh, 1572
and William Stuidman reidare(?) at Auchterderay, 1574.

Alexander Steidman was retoured heir in croft and toft in the vill Kinross
1621. James Stuidman was heir of Robert Stuidman, servitor
S.G.N. servitor Regis charismae matris, 1633 and Janet Stoodman
appears in Edinburgh in 1643, (Edinb, Marr)

*****Chalmers (History of Dunfermline) has a genealogy of the
*****Steedmans of Baldridge, Fife.

John le Stedman is recorded in English, 'Parliamentary Writs' in 1306.
Stidman 1688.
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Steadman is not a common name in Scotland, but is obviously not
unheard of. There is a very good chance that the information from
GFBlack alone is enough of a start to get some very specific and
localised information.

Cheers
The Glenallan
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>Subject: STEEDMAN
>From: "Leanne" magdalyn@@xta.com
>Date: 7/16/00 10:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time
>Message-id: <uWlc5.577$C7.1...@homer.alpha.net>

>
> Hello all,
> I have been unable to link the surname STEEDMAN to a clan or sept.
>Would anyone happen to know if there is a clan affiliation? Just beginning
>my research in Scotland.
>Thank You !!
>Leanne Mitchell

Hi Leanne, Kiltie here. Scots Kith & Kin show the name Steedman/Stedman to be
an Angus & Fife name from the 16C.They show no Clan affiliation. Collins book
of Scottish Names shows that Steedman/Steadman in Anglo-Saxon timeswas stede
meaning an estate of farm.(cf. our word steading) and the steadmanwould be a
farm servant or overseer.The name is shown as Stedman in 1321, and crops up
again in Angus in the early 16th C. Steedman appears ib Kinross in 1621. The
name is presently found mainly around Edinburgh. The form Studeman, which was
found in Edinburgh in the 16th & 17thC, may be from "Studman", the keeper of
the Stallions, indeed the old worrd for stallions was "steed" and it is
possible that some Steedmans may derive their name from Cavalry. In Surnames of
Scotland, George Black show the primary spelling as Stedman, with Steedman and
Stuidman following. He says it is derived from the English "stead", a farmhouse
and offices plus man. Bye for now & Best Regards, Kiltie(Charles Hamilton
Leitch)