Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Workman was born about 1852, in Logan, Virginia, United States, his father, Abijah Workman, was 33 and his mother, Nancy Perry, was 30. He died in 1860, in Big Harts Creek, Lincoln, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 9.
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- Samuel Workman in household of A Workman, "United States Census, 1860"
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Name Meaning
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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