When Daniel Webster Norman was born on 23 July 1872, in Morgan, Indiana, United States, his father, Joseph Thomas Norman, was 49 and his mother, Nancy Rebecca Ptomey, was 36. He married Dora Elgin on 28 August 1891, in Morgan, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Washington Township, Morgan, Indiana, United States for about 20 years and Jackson Township, Morgan, Indiana, United States in 1930. He died on 2 February 1952, in Morgan, Indiana, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Morgantown, Jackson Township, Morgan, Indiana, United States.
English, Irish (Dublin and Cork), and Scottish: ethnic or habitational name applied either to a Scandinavian or to someone from Normandy in northern France. The Scandinavian adventurers of the Dark Ages called themselves northmenn ‘men from the North’. Before 1066, Scandinavian settlers in England were already fairly readily absorbed, and Northman and Normann came to be used as bynames and later as personal names, even among the Saxon inhabitants. The term gained a new use from 1066 onward, when England was settled by invaders from Normandy, who were likewise of Scandinavian origin but by now largely integrated with the native population and speaking a Romance language, retaining only their original ancient Germanic name.
English: from the Middle English personal name Norman (recorded in the late Old English period as Northman), derived from northman ‘northerner’.
Americanized form of German Normann .
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