CHRISTMAS is one of my family tree names. That was one of the incentives for me to get into genealogy - more than twenty years ago. I have a very great deal of info about my CHRISTMAS branch and the names that feed into it.
It's also relevant, perhaps, that there is a Guild of One Name Studies (https://one-name.org) project for that surname - I'm not sure how active it is.
Before the opportunities provided by online research, "John REEVES" (a son of one of the branches) created a traditional paper tree for the name. I was given a copy and have left a copy at the Hampshire Archives, in Winchester. I found a few errors in my mother's part of the tree - understandable, in the absence of easy access to original documents (or images of them). Although the instances you have cited, here, are in Cambridge, I believe that the most instances of the name tended to be in Hampshire and neighbouring counties. A cluster in Hull area were "strays" from the Hampshire family.

Here are some generations of my part of the CHRISTMAS family tree, going back in time (earlier names depending heavily on the researches by John Reeves, as mentioned):

    Herbert Russell CHRISTMAS: 1 Sep 1894 ~ 12 Jul 1981
He was the son of:
    Edwin CHRISTMAS: 1 Nov 1847 ~ 25 Jan 1911
He was the son of:
    Eli CHRISTMAS: 19 Nov 1806 ~ 13 May 1886
He was the son of:
    William CHRISTMAS: b 3 Dec 1749 ~ 18 Jul 1825
He was the son of:
    Daniel CHRISTMAS: 1719 ~ d 1785
He was the son of:
    William CHRISTMAS: 1680 ~ d ?1745
He was the son of:
    William CHRISTMAS: (b/bap?) 26 Jun 1655 ~ d 1693
He was the son of:
    William CHRISTMAS: b ? ~ d 1692
He was the son of:
    Nicholas CHRISTMAS: 1589 ~ 1644
He was the son of:
    Henry CHRISTMAS: 1557 ~ 1630
He was the son of:
    Thomas CHRISTMAS: ca 1531 ~ 1589
He was the son of:
    Edward CHRISTMAS: dates unknown (so far!).

All these names are recorded as being in Hampshire: Alton, Binsted, Selborne, East Worldham, Headley, Farringdon, Southampton...


Submitter: Christine Bennett