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The sherman Surname

sherman Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a sheepshearer or someone who used shears to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excess nap, from Middle English shereman ‘shearer’.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Schuermann.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tailor, from Yiddish sher ‘scissors’ + man ‘man’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The sherman name in History

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Distribution of sherman Families in the US in 1920
Number of sherman families
 1138-2273
 380-1137		 1-379
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 1161 - Messages: 2764
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Death of Ms. Mary Belle Sherman in Japan davwayell 0
Harry Sherman b. 1867 Venango Co., PA cworstell 36
Philip Sherman cjdaube2 0
aimee sherman rae 15
Descendants of Edmund Sherman/Essex Syble 65
Sherman Family Brooklyn NY/LA CA Lisa Flynn 3
Eugene Sherman Craig 2
Sherman, Joseph S.-GA suebod 0
SHERMAN/PICKENS davidahenry 1
Death of Mr. Robert Sherman in BRazil davwayell 0
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