AKERMAN

AKERMAN. A-Sax. cer-mo«, a fieldman, farmer, ploughman, clown. Bosworth. The German Aclwrmann, naturalized amongst us, has precisely the same signification. The forms in the H.ll. are Alcennan, le Akermon, le Akermannes, Achcrman, and le Acreman. Sometimes the Akennanni were a peculiar class of feudal tenants, the tenure of whose lands is uncertain, as it is stated that the lord could take them into his own hands when he would, yet vithout injury to the hereditary succession. These holdings were very small, consisting in some instances of five acres only. Hale's St. Paul's Domesd., p. xxiv. " Agricola, ceccr-vian.' Wright's Vocab. p. 74.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.