Christmas surname

[Siely]

Did you know that Christmas is a surname ?

[Gillg]

Oh yes! I knew someone with that surname in Gloucestershire in the 1990s.  She was involved in education and was a vociferous critic when the college there was up for sale to a supermarket chain.  (Education won and the supermarket had to look elsewhere for a site.)

Bristol has Christmas Street and Christmas Steps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Steps,_Bristol

[Mike in Cumbria]

I used to know a Philip Christmas at university.

[youngtug]

http://surname.rootschat.com/sit-surnames.php?letter1=C&letter2=5&surname=CHRISTMAS#top_tv

[DianaCanada]

I have come across Christmas and Chrismas in East Sussex.

[coombs]

I have also come across the Christmas surname in Sussex, a Mary Christmas in Dallington in East Sussex in the early 1700s. She wed into the Sinden family I think, and other researchers added her as the mother of a mutual Sinden ancestor, however my research has suggested otherwise, not yet found the whole pieces of the jigsaw next.

[Top-of-the-hill]

  My daughter was at Primary school with a girl of that name, but she is the only one I know of.

[Forfarian]

There was a well-known amateur golfer whose surname was Christmas. In 1969 I was stewarding at the Open Championships at Carnoustie and a wayward shot of his hit my back and dropped on the fairway. If it hadn't hit me it would have gone into the burn, and cost him a couple of strokes. He said he would buy me dinner as thanks for being in the way but it never came to pass.

[DianaCanada]

Just checked my family tree program and one of my distant relatives in Sussex, John Cornford, married a Mary Christmas in Herstmonceux in 1877.  Mary was from Wartling and John from Warbleton.