NameAnalysis(Earliest) | 1627;No significant gaps in the birth registers (1628 - 1854), biggest being 19 years between 1820 and 1829, with another 12 years 1774 to 1786, rest under 10 years Earliest marriage 1627 (Kinfauns). As for the birth registers, not many years without a Runciman marriage: 16 year gap between 1643 and 1659; 9 year gap between 1683 and 1692; 13 year gap between 1798 and 1811, then 12 years from 1811 to 1823; 10 between 1832 and 1842; an occasional 8-9 yr gap but most gaps are 5 years and under1,2 |
SurnameVariant | 1628;Runsiman;91 instances: earliest 1628 (Kinfauns), latest 1805 (Inchture), 75 in Kinfauns, rest scattered over the other eight parishes: Abernyte, Dron, Errol, Inchture, Kinnoull, Perth, St Madoes, St Martins1 |
SurnameVariant | 1653;Runciemane;Four instances, earliest Thomas in Kinfauns (1653); two Kinnoull 1670s, one to James, one to John; last 1713 St Martins3 |
SurnameVariant | 1654;Runcemane;One instance, Kinfauns, no mother's name mentioned4 |
SurnameVariant | 1656;Runceman;Seven instances, 1656 (Kinfauns) to 1746, no mothers' names listed, three to George, two to an Androu, two to separate Johns5 |
SurnameVariant | 1664;Runsieman;Seven instances all within 1664 - 1667, two from the same family (who are also recorded under other surname variants); two parishes, Perth and Kinfauns6 |
SurnameVariant | 1664;Runcimane;Only two instances, earliest Kinnoull (1664), the other 1711 Perth7 |
SurnameVariant | 1672;Runcieman;22 instances, earliest 1672 (Kinnoull), last 1715 (St Martins), only four with mothers' names listed. Most were Kinnoull (14), St Martins (4) with Perth (3) and Kilspindle (1) making up the rest8 |
SurnameVariant | 1675;Runciman;75 of the 220 births (or baptisms): earliest 1675 in Perth (22 of the 75); 12 in St Martins, 10 in Cargill, 9 Inchture, rest spread over Abernethy, Abernyte, Kilspindie, Kinnaird, Kinnoull9 |
SurnameVariant | 1705;Rwnciman;Only 3 instances of what has to be the oddest variant of the surname, all the same family, 1705 to 1713, all Perth I've not checked that it may be a consistent transcription error10 |
SurnameVariant | 1714;Runchiemane;Only the one, 1714, Dunkeld11 |
SurnameVariant | 1722;Runseman;Four instances, earliest 1722, all Kinfauns (to 1751), possibly two families, John 1722, 1726, and Robert 1746, 175112 |
SurnameVariant | 1752;Ronsomen;just one instance, assumed to be the same family recorded as both Ronsoman and Runsiman13 |
SurnameVariant | 1755;Ronsaman;just two instances, both same family, same date, family also recorded on other dates as Ronsomen and Runsiman14 |
Cens1851 | 1851;Perthshire (1851), SCT ;FamilySearch: 9 of the RUNCIMAN like names listed. Surnames indexed: RUNCIMAN (6), RUNCEMAN (2), RUNCYMAN (1), over 5 parishes15 |