Brief Life History of Elias
When Elias Mann was born on 11 November 1759, in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, his father, David Man, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Wolcox, was 33. He married Mrs. Elias Man about 1780. He died on 21 April 1781, in his hometown, at the age of 21.
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- Elias Man, "New Jersey, Births and Christenings, 1660-1980"
- "History of Elizabeth, New Jersey : including the early history of Union County"
- New Jersey, Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931
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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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