When Martha Workman was born about 1862, her father, Amos Francis Workman, was 44 and her mother, Margaret Ann Canterbury, was 25.
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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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