When Walter K. Rodman was born in 1885, in Prussia, Germany, his father, Hardy Rodman, was 40 and his mother, Pauline Helene Eckstein, was 30. He died about 1985, at the age of 101.
English: occupational name for a thatcher or reed-cutter, from Southwest Middle English rod(e), rud(e) (Old English hrēod) ‘reed’ + -man. Synonymous with Redman 1.
English: topographic name for someone who lived at a clearing, from Middle English rode (Old English rodu) or Southwest Middle English rude (Old English rȳde) ‘clearing’ + man. See Redman 2.
Americanized form of German Rodmann: variant of Rodemann (see Rodeman ).
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