LOMAX. This surname, and its vernacular pronunciation Lomas, have long been associated with South Lancashire. The ancient orthography appears in a MS. Rent Roll of Sir John Pilkington of Burj', Knt., dated 13. Henry VI., as Del Lundialglics, Del Lumhalghe. To lumludglte, which appears to be a topographical expression, lean attach no meaning. In the early part of the seventeenth century the name was written Lummas : somewliat later, viz., in 1653, it first appears as Lomax. See Notes and Queries, Dec. 10, 1859. In the South of England the in Lomas and Lomax is long.

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