Sidman Family History

English:: from an unrecorded early Middle English personal name Sideman or Sedeman (Old English Sidumann Seodumann a pet form of Old English personal names formed with sidu seodu ‘custom manners modesty’ + the hypocoristic suffix mann). Perhaps an occupational name for a servant of a man surnamed Seed.

Perhaps an occupational name from an unrecorded Middle English sedeman ‘sower of seeds’ synonymous with Middle English sedere. Altered form of Sydenham, a habitational name from Sydenham in Bridgwater (Somerset), Sydenham Damerel (Devon), Sydenham in Marystow (Devon), or Sydenham (Oxon).

The placenames originally meant ‘(at the) wide enclosure or water meadow’ from Old English sīdan, dative of sīd ‘large spacious wide’ + hamm ‘enclosure water meadow’.