SHERMAN, John Jr.

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• Name	SHERMAN, John
  Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	1421	Yaxley, Suffolk, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	1511	Norfolk, Leicestershire, England
  WAC	1 Nov 1940	ARIZO
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  Person ID	I32743	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	SHERMAN, Reverend John Sr. ,   b. 1396, Yaxley, Suffolk, England Yaxley, Suffolk, Englandd. 21 Oct 1487, Yaxley, Suffolk, England (Age 91 years)
  Mother	LANCE, Mary ,   b. 1393, Dartford, Kent, England Dartford, Kent, Englandd. 1487, Yaxley, Suffolk, England (Age 94 years)
  Marriage	1420	Yaxley, Suffolk, England
  Notes	MARRIAGE: 2 _PREF 2 _PREF Y _UIDC49EA3539638EE408F236EF60C2A61E9EAC7 _UID2DF0FA11C8345347BDA5F3AE1D6DE5CDFD97 REFN76496
  Family ID	F17188	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  The name of SHERMAN was an occupational name 'the shearman' one who sheared the nap. A keeper of sheep, a shepherd. The name was very familiar to medieval records. The small villages of Europe, or royal and noble households, even large religious dwellings and monasteries gave rise to many family names, which reflected the occupation or profession of the original bearer of the name. Following the Crusades in Europe in the 11th 12th and 13th centuries a need was felt for an additional name. This was recognized by those of gentle birth, who realised that it added prestige and practical advantage to their status. Early records of the name mention John le Shereman, 1300 Yorkshire. Oliver Sherman of Yorkshire was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. Baptised. Elizabeth Sherman, St. James's, Clerkenwell, London in 1638. Edward Sharman married Sarah Barlow, St. George's, Hanover Square, London in 1792. In many parts of central and western Europe, hereditary surnames began to become fixed at around the 12th century, and have developed and changed slowly over the years. As society became more complex, and such matters as the management of tenure, and in particular the collection of taxes were delegated to special functionaries, it became imperative to distinguish a more complex system of nomenclature to differentiate one individual from another. Roger SHERMAN (1722-93) was the only man to sign all four documents at the foundation of the American republic (the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Association and Confederation and the Constitution itself). He was born in Newton Massachusetts, and was a descendant of Captain John Sherman, who had emigrated in about 1636 to America, from Dedham in County Essex, where his father was a farmer, following his brother Edmund who had emigrated two years previously. The associated arms are recorded in Burkes General Armory Ulster King of Arms in 1884.