When James Frederick Waterman was born in 1922, in Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, Stephen John Waterman, was 37 and his mother, May Tree, was 31.
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First UK government led by the Labor party under Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
Women in England over the age of 21 were granted the right to vote on May 7, 1928.
Queen Elizabeth II crowned at a coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey in London.
English and Dutch: occupational name for a boatman or ferryman, or a water carrier (the English name was perhaps sometimes synonymous with Middle English waterlader or waterberer, denoting a man who carried fresh water from a spring or stream for drinking or domestic use), or a topographic name for someone who lived by a pond or stretch of water (see Water 2).
English: occupational name from the Middle English personal name Water or Walter + man, meaning ‘servant of Wa(l)ter’.
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Wassermann or Jewish (Ashkenazic) Wasserman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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