When Peter Cartrite Workman was born on 15 May 1852, in Chatham Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, his father, John Workman, was 27 and his mother, Caroline Campbell, was 17. He died on 6 August 1853, in his hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in John Campbell Cemetery, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.
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English (Gloucestershire): ostensibly an occupational name for a laborer, from Middle English werkman ‘laborer, craftsman’, also ‘customary tenant’ (Old English weorcmann). A customary tenant was a person allowed to hold land in exchange for carrying out a certain service.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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