Brief Life History of Elisabeth
Elisabeth Ackerman was born about 1660, in Losheim am See, Merzig-Wadern, Saarland, Germany as the daughter of Gangolf Ackermann and Mrs Gangolf Ackermann. She married Thomas Steuer in 1680. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She died in Germany.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Elisabeth Ackerman - Published information: birth-name: Elisabeth Ackerman
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Dutch: occupational name from akkerman ‘farmer, plowman’ (from akker ‘field’ + man ‘man’). Compare Akkerman , Aukerman , and Ockerman .
English: from Middle English acreman ‘cultivator of the soil, plowman’ (Old English æcerman, from æcer ‘field, acre’ + man ‘man’). Typically, an acreman was a bond tenant of a manor holding half a virgate of arable land, for which he paid by serving as a plowman. The term was also used generically to denote a plowman or husbandman.
Americanized form of German Ackermann 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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