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The name Marshman is a family, or surname which originated in England and either refers to an occupation - namely a person whose job it was to work the marshes or it is derived from their residency possibly of Marsham in Norfolk, or in Mersham in Kent. There is a strong settlement of the Marshman family in Wiltshire, especially near Dilton Marsh.
Today in East Anglia, in England, workers known as Marshmen continue to collect reeds and rushes for the thatching industry.
Spelling variations include:
- Marsham
- Marshan
- Marshom,
- Marshon
- Marshania
- Amarshan
The name might apply to:
Usage examples of "marshman".
He by no means agreed with all the Baptist doctrines, but he held in great esteem and reverence such men as Carey and Marshman, was glad to profit by their experience and instructions, and heartily sympathised in all their difficulties.
Serampore proved fatal to one of their number, the young man whom Marshman had rescued from infidelity, who died of chill and fever before his inexperienced associates were aware of his danger.
Accordingly he resolved to set the example, and the corpse of the convert, within a coffin covered with white muslin, was carried to the burial-ground by Marshman, Felix Carey, a baptized Brahmin, and a baptized Hindoo, all the procession singing a Bengalee Christian hymn.
Here were their chapel, their schools, and their printing-press, from whence emanated such books and tracts in Bengalee as could be useful for their purpose, and likewise their great work, the translation of the Scriptures, which Marshman and Carey were continually revising and improving as their knowledge of the language became more critical.
For twenty-three years had the threefold cord between Carey, Marshman, and Ward, been unbroken.
He reasoned himself into doubts of the Divine power and of the immortality of the soul, and finally left the island, nor was he heard of again for many years, though prayer was constantly made for him, and at length it became known that he had wandered to Serampore, where the influence of Marshman and Carey had prevailed to bring back his faith, but he had since been lost at sea.
Here he became engaged to be married to Miss Marshman, daughter of a missionary, and the wedding-day was soon fixed.
Their speed on the road was greatly assisted by the half-week of dry weather Jaldis had foreseen and by the two small donkeys and the Marshman servant the Lady had lent them for the trip.
Its students have never ceased to be ornaments to the American pulpit, while some of the number, proving themselves worthy successors of Carey, Marshman, Coke, and Ward, have labored in heathen lands with apostolic zeal.
Well, as a Marshman born and bred, I take that as an insult--a ruddy insult, as you seem to like that adjective.
Carey Marshman and Ward, with their wives and children who welcomed them most cordially, and invited them to remain until the arrival of their brother missionaries.
He sleeps, says his mother, in the mission burial-ground, where moulders the dust of Carey, Marshman and Ward.
A kindly old man named Marshman was president and majority stock owner and in the last year his son Michael had graduated from college and joined the firm.
A heavy automatic gun, the sort the marshmen used to kill the big crocodilians whose back armor might deflect even the needles of a strakkaker.
The riot had now changed into open mutiny among these marshmen and miners.