Ernest Roy Eastman was born on 8 October 1893, in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia as the son of Fanny Augusta Eastman. He married Mary Field Atkins on 3 June 1916, in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. He died in 1979, in Tasmania, Australia, at the age of 86.
English: from the Middle English personal name Estmund (Old English Ēastmund, from ēast ‘east’ + mund ‘protection’). See also Esmond .
English: occasionally a variant of Heasman, a topographic name for a dweller ‘(in the) brushwood’, from Old English hǣse ‘brushwood’ + mann (compare Hayes 3).
Americanized form (translation into English) of Swedish Östman (see Ostman ) and North German Ostmann or Östmann (see Oestmann ).
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