When Elizabeth Jane Norman was born on 14 October 1857, in Silk Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Samuel Norman, was 24 and her mother, Sarah Berridge, was 27. She married Zacheus Buckingham on 30 August 1877, in Columbus Grove, Putnam, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Pleasant Township, Putnam, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and Columbus Grove, Pleasant Township, Putnam, Ohio, United States in 1940. She died on 11 September 1942, in Columbus Grove, Putnam, Ohio, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Columbus Grove, Putnam, Ohio, United States.
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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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Possible Related NamesWritten by Auretta Belle Geertsen Manwaring - Granddaughter Elizabeth Jane Norman was born the 14th of October, 1857 i Silk Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England to Samuel Norman the III and Sarah Berrid …
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