
English German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a fierce or strong man or for a man contrasted with a boy from Middle English Middle High German man German Mann ‘man’. In some cases it may have arisen as an occupational name for a servant from the medieval use of the term to describe a person of inferior social status. The Jewish surname can be artificial. English and German: from the anci...
I understand, For many Jamaican families it is difficult to name sometimes our grandparents, especially our great-grandparents, and least likely to name our great-great grandparents. I hope with more people doing genealogy on families in Jamaica, this changes in the near future!I am the Grand-daughter of GILBERT POWELL and ADINA WILLIAMS , and the daughter of GEORGE POWELL. I understand that my...