When Clarence Gordan Bodman Ayers was born on 6 January 1905, in London, Ontario, Canada West, British Colonial America, his father, James Ayers Bodman, was 51 and his mother, Mary Jane McBride, was 38. He died on 22 February 1905, in his hometown, at the age of 0.
English: from Middle English bode ‘messenger’ + man ‘man, servant’ (Old English boda ‘messenger’ or (ge)bod ‘message’ + mann), hence an occupational name denoting a messenger or the servant of a messenger.
Americanized form of German Bodmann, a variant of Bodemann (see Bodeman ).
Jewish (from Belarus): occupational name for the keeper of a bathhouse, from Yiddish bod ‘bathhouse’ + man ‘man’.
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