Brief Life History of Elizabeth
Elizabeth Lehman was born in 1927. She died in 2018, at the age of 91.
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Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Lehmann . Compare Layman , Leaman , Leeman , and Leman .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Lehmann .
History: This (see 1 above) is the name of a Swiss Mennonite family, originating in the Emmental in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, from where many of its bearers moved in the early 18th century to the Palatinate in Germany, Alsace in France, and (finally) to PA in the US. Its original Swiss German form is Lehmann. Among the American Mennonites it is also established in the altered forms Layman and Leaman.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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