Sellman Family History
Sellman Name Meaning
English: variant of Selman.North German
(Sellmann): topographic name from Middle Low German sele
‘meadow’, ‘bog’ + man ‘man’.South German:
occupational name for a middleman in a land or property sale or for a
guardian, from Middle High German sale ‘property transfer’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Selman.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sellman
Name Distribution of Sellman Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sellman families
 35 - 67  12 - 34 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sellman families
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32 - 62 11 - 31 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sellman census records
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Sellman Family Origin
Sellman Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Sellman
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Sellman Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Sellman census records
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Sellman Civil War Service Records
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