Echerman History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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• England

Etymology of Echerman

The name Echerman is from the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name was given to a person who was a ploughman, a tiller of the soil, or a farmer. The name Echerman was originally derived from the Old German word or name Akermann, which literally means acreman. 1

Early Origins of the Echerman family

Early History of the Echerman family

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Echerman Spelling Variations

Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Echerman family name include Akerman, Acreman, Ackerman, Akarman, Acherman and many more.

Early Notables of the Echerman family

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Migration of the Echerman family

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Investigation of the origins of family names on the North American continent has revealed that early immigrants bearing the name Echerman or a variant listed above: Thomas Ackerman who settled in Virginia in 1653; Carl Ackerman who landed in Canada in 1783; Adam, Charles, David, Francis, George, Jacob, Joseph, Paul, Philip, Stephen, Robert and William Ackerman, all landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between 1738 and 1867.