The origin of the name Coleman is IrishEnglish (2 origins available) and the Coat of Arms contains A shield divided per fesse silver and black with a cross patonce between four mullets counterchanged. The Crest is A greyhound's head sabled gorged with a silver colllar and ring, charged with three black mullets.
Spelling variations include: Colman, Coleman, O'Colman, MacColeman, McColeman, Coalman, Coulman, Colemen, Colmen, Coalmen, Colmin, Colmen, Coulmen, Coulmin, Colemin and many more.
First found in county Sligo where they were a sept of O'Colmain, a branch of Hy Fiachrach.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Thomas Coleman, who arrived in America from Marlborough in Wiltshire, England; Thomas Coleman settled in Newbury, and later Boston, Massachusetts. He was under contract, but not indentured to Sir Richard Saltonstall, to keep his cattle. He was negligent and unfaithful, as the court ruled, but, strangely a year later in 1637.
