When Samuel Frank Greenman was born on 28 July 1907, in Hullavington, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Frank Greenman, was 49 and his mother, Rose Fry, was 38. He died in 1979, in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 72.
English (Wiltshire): from Middle English grene ‘green’ + man ‘man’, a nickname from the Green Man of folklore, or a topographic name for someone who lived by the village green. Compare Green .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Grunemann or Grünemann: topographic name for someone who lived by the village green (compare above and Greenland ), or a habitational name for someone from any of numerous places called Grüna, Grünau, or Grüne.
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