When Hester Smallman was born in 1767, in Kempley, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Smallman, was 33 and her mother, Ann Hide, was 30. She married Francis Elton on 28 July 1794, in Kempley, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter.
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English:
nickname for a small or skinny person, from Middle English smal ‘small, narrow’ + -man.
status name from Middle English smal(e)man, apparently a feudal term denoting an order of medieval peasantry. The term is evidenced in the phrase de Tainis et Dreinis et Smalemannis (‘of thanes and drengs and smallmen’) which occurs in 1130 in relation to Durham.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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