Show Your Last Name I 11 J t IS S IT MANN ri fact tact that this name mime Is derived from the word mantas manias It was used to Indicate a n servant or r retainer ought snot not to to- tobe be objectionable to those who f bear bea the name Knight also first a servant or retainer and the good o lI old surnames Chamberlain and Su Stewart art or Stuart were derived ed from t nal names Indicating positions of service e However r It has b been ben en pointed out that rann was an Saxon Anglo personal name m l e and the surname may have been tal taken n from it When man ran Is found In compound with other s syllables It someo some- some o I hI it hIt q t is used purely by hy way of de- de jj Mortar v ua we e liti t ve e TO OO pug M and Still another explanation Is given of the name and undoubtedly this holds true true In certain branches of the family In this case the name has a local loral origin and Is derived ed from Le Mans the capital of Sarthe In France For Instance William who came from Le LeMans LeMans Mans Ians might have haTe been called caned William Le Mans Inns which eventually e would become become become be be- come William Mann The Mann Iann family was early established established in this countr country There was a aWilliam aWilliam William Mann Iann who settled In Cambridge Cambridge Cambridge Cam Cam- bridge Mass and a a- prominent Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia family of the name Then there was visas a n states Middle family of ot the name descended from a n German ancestor ancestor ances ancs tor of ot the name of ot Mann which Is even en more usual In Germany German than in England I Horace Homce Mann born In 1700 1790 U the e prominent American educator who Iio married a n sister of the wife of Nathaniel Na thaniel Hawthorne was descended from William Mann who settled In Cambridge Mass There was also an English Horace Mann Mann Horace j I Mann Manh He lIe was born In 1701 and was i ithe the second son sou of Robert Mann Ionn a n London London Lon Lon- don lion merchant He Ile was British envoy emoy at nt Florence and a man of ot much prominence prominence nence In n the diplomatic world ATKINS Sometimes ATKINS-Sometimes Sometimes S this Is s from Adam and sometimes from Arthur Pritchard This is a Welsh name now no usual In England Englund antI and the United States and Is derived ed from Ap p RIchard Richard Richard Rich RIch- ard meaning son of Richard Contracted Contracted Contracted Con Con- Ap Richard mchard easily becomes Pritchard Q by McClure N Newspaper w pap r Syndicate |