Type Surname
Usage English
Meaning & History
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indicate the level to which a name has been verified.Type Surname
Usage Lumbee
Meaning & History
The earliest possibly record of this is from 1728. The spelling at the time was possibly different. It was the surname of freed servant mulatto servant named Will Chaviss. In 1900 census of Robeson County, North Carolina the word was self-identified as a Lumbee last name.