Genealogy / Lambor surname [8]

@vev
Thank you for your reply and for the information that Jozef Lambor was the son of Martin Lambor and Veronika Plášek. You wrote a long time ago, but I have only just found this, so I'm sorry I didn't thank you sooner. We are probably cousins?! Can you tell how long Lambor has been in Kanovice, from the chronicles and archives? Renia Lambor.

Genealogy / Lambor surname [8]

Thank you, but you have been helpful. You have more or less confirmed that Lambor isn't a Polish name. Sob! (Don't worry. I have plenty of others: Bogucki h Krzywda, for example!) I suspect it is Greek, from Lambros. There are various different "looks" in Greece, and my father looked very like some of those "looks". I suspect that the Greek Diaspora which settled in Ukraine in the 18th century might have seen a Lambros or two settle there and that my own original Lambor may have been a Napoleonic soldier who moved around, though where Kanovice comes into it, I can't say, unless his papa was a soldier, too.

Genealogy / Lambor surname [8]

Thanks for your reply!

My father told me Lambor was an "old Polish word" for a "warrior". (Well, he would, wouldn't he!) But, I read somewhere that words ending in "bor" are to do with warriors. I also read that words ending in "bor" are to do with woods and forests. Someone else said the name meant "shining one", from "lampa".

My first Lambor was born about 1812 in Kanovice, Moravia but that later generations were living in Sambor, Ukraine. Then my lot settled near Krakow (where some still are), geographically quite close to Moravia, while one of the brothers stayed in Sambor.

I've often wondered whether, somewhere on the records, Lambor was somehow derived from Sambor. In old writing, the letters might look similar, but the pronunciation would be very different. The same with Jambor, a name which abounds in that region of Moravia.

But, with the aid of the internet, I've discovered Lambors in America who originated in Greece. In one case, his name was spellt Lambros, but he signed his name as Lambor. In Greece, Lambros is "shining one".