When Sarah Ann Shortman was born in 1856, in Abersychan, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Shortman, was 22 and her mother, Ann Garland, was 23. She married William Hewlett on 31 July 1876, in Llanhilleth, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She immigrated to United States in 1887 and lived in Weld, Colorado, United States in 1920 and Erie, Weld, Colorado, United States in 1930. She died in 1941, in Erie, Boulder, Colorado, United States, at the age of 85.
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English (Gloucestershire): nickname for a man of short stature, or from an early Middle English personal name Shortman, Old English Sceortmann, derived from the nickname and possibly attested in Sordemaneford (1086 in Domesday Book), now Shortmansford in Stogursey (Somerset).
Native American (also Short Man): translation into English of a personal name such as Navajo Hastiin Yázhí, composed of hastiin ‘man’ and yázhí ‘little (one)’ (see Yazzie ). Compare Littleman and Shorty .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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