When Francis "Fannie" Sawyer Newman was born on 17 October 1840, in Canterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom, her father, Matthew Newman, was 39 and her mother, Elisabeth Martin, was 36. She married William Helm on 13 November 1861, in Placer, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Phelps, Phelps, Ontario, New York, United States for about 10 years and Fresno, California, United States in 1880. She died on 22 April 1906, in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Fresno, Fresno, California, United States.
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English (southern): nickname from Middle English newe ‘new’ (i.e. newly arrived or newly appointed) + man ‘man’ (Old English nīwe + mann).
Americanized form (translation into English) of surnames meaning ‘new man, newcomer’, for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Neumann , Swedish Nyman , Polish Nowak , Czech or Slovak Novák, Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Novak .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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