When Edward Woodman was born on 13 May 1698, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Archelaus Woodman, was 25 and his mother, Hannah Swett, was 23. He married Mary Sanders on 22 November 1729, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 1 November 1762, in his hometown, at the age of 64, and was buried in Sawyer Hill Burying Ground, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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English:
occupational name for a woodcutter or a forester (compare Woodward ), from Middle English wodeman ‘woodman’. In some instances this may be a variant of Wadman .
from the Middle English personal name Wudemann (Old English Wuduman, from wudu ‘wood’ + mann ‘man’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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