This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Solomon,' popularly in Middle English Salamon, and with excrescent —d— Salamond (compare Simmonds and Hammond for Simmons and Hamon). These forms represent families of English descent, Solomon representing modern Jewish immigrations. Of course the London Directory has several Salamons, undoubtedly Jewish, but, speaking generally, our Salomans, Salamans, Salemans, Salmons, Salmans, Salmonds, Sammons, and Sammonds, are of English extraction, just as much as our Davies and Davidsons are (excepting when these are Welsh or Scottish).

William Salman, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

1574. Buried — Alexander Sawllmond: St. Peter, Cornhill.

1620. John Salmon and Constance Fallwell: Marriage Lic. (London).

1797. Married — William Salmond and Elizabeth Corns: St. George, Hanover Square.

Salamone was an old Scots spelling of Solomon, a once popular forename, and Salmonde (pron. Salmon) is an old surname in Perthshire still existing. The d is excrescent. Salomon, chaplain of the bishop of Glasgow, was present in curia regis at Roxburgh, 1159 (Annals, p. 40). John Sawmond was tenant of the mill of Drwmys, 1494 (Cupar-Ansus, I, p. 243). Rankinus Salmone, witness in Glasgow, 1504 (Simon, 111). George Salmont is recorded in Linlithgow, 1532 (] ohnsoun). James Salmond was a canon of Aberdeen, 1546 (LSC., p. 266). William Salmond or Salmound was subdean of Holy Trinity, Edinburgh, 1544, and prebendary there, 1565 (Soltre, p. 126,222). Robert Salmonde possessed a tenement in Glasgow, 1553 (Protocols, I). Marion Salmond was murdered in Dundee. 1562 (ER., XIX, p. 497), and John Salmain is recorded in Newtoun, 1688 (Dunkeld). ohn Salmond, burgess of Perth, 1584 (Poltalloch Writs, p. 185).

(Hebrew) for Salomon, Solomon, q.v.

(occasionally) (Teutonic) for the Old Teutonic Salaman, [apparently from O.H.Ger. salo = Old English salo, dark, tawny] (occasionally) (Anglo-French-Latin) a nickname or tradename from the fish [Old French saulmon (French saumon), Latin salmo, -onis, a salmon] (occasionally) (French-Latin or Teutonic) belonging to St. Almand or St. Amand (France).

The name Salmon was often Latinized in mediæval documents de Sancto Alemondo, implying a French ecclesiastical place-name St. Almond (cp. Almond), which apparently has been merged in St. Amand, a common French-Latin place-name which was Latinized de Sancto Amando.

This name, though identical with the designation of a well-known fish, probably originated from another source. The manor of Salmons in Caterham, co. Surrey, is known to have belonged temp. Edw. II. to Roger Saleman. Brayley's Surrey, iv. 189. Now sel, Anglo-Saxon and salle, French signify a hall, and saleman would consequently be the attendant or keeper of a hall. The name under this orthography is common in the Hundred Bolls.

1. From Solomon. 2. From Saleman. "The manor of Salmons in Caterham co. Surrey is known to have belonged, temp. Edward III., to Roger Saleman" (Brayley's Surrey, iv. 189). The name Saleman might signify both a saleman and an attendant or keeper of a hall.