When Abraham Mann Sr was born on 23 June 1798, in Mount Bethel, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John George Peter Mann, was 33 and his mother, Margaret Pierson, was 25. He married Sarah Schick about 1820, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 14 September 1869, in Lower Mount Bethel Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Upper Mount Bethel Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a fierce or strong man, or for a man contrasted with a boy, from Middle English, Middle High German man, German Mann ‘man’. In some cases it may have arisen as an occupational name for a servant, from the medieval use of the term to describe a person of inferior social status. The Jewish surname can be artificial.
English and German: from the ancient Germanic personal name Manno, found in Old English as Mann or Manna. This originated either as a byname or else as a short form of a compound name containing the element man ‘man’, such as Hermann .
English: habitational name from the Isle of Man.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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