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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : topographic name for a dweller in marshland, from Middle Dutch marsch, mersch ‘marsh’ + man ‘man’.
  • Dutch : occupational name for a traveling salesman, from Middle Dutch me(e)rseman, maers(e)man.

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