Packman Family History
- Packman Name Meaning
- English: occupational name for a peddler or hawker, Middle English packeman. English: occupational name for the servant (Middle English man) of someone called Pack. German (Packmann, Päckmann), Dutch (Pakman), and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a packer (one who packed goods for shipping) or alternatively a rider or driver of pack animals, used for carrying comparatively light quantitites of goods at high speed, from a derivative of packen ‘to pack’. German: variant of Pach 1, 2.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 75,987 Historical Documents with Packman on Ancestry
- 24,125 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 21,788 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,297 Military Records
- 1,836 Immigration Records
- 26,941 Member Trees
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Number of Packman families
 173 - 344  58 - 172 |
 1 - 57  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Packman census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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