Researching Philip Sherman
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The name Philip means "lover of horses" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Philip Sherman on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Philip Sherman and the Sherman Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Sherman Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Sherman family tree.
Search Parish Records for Philip Sherman at Find My Past.
Study for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Philip Sherman using the FreeBMD database.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 2264 people with the Sherman surname in the UK? Sherman is now ranked number 2182 for popularity in the UK. |
Sherman Family Tree Databases
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Study the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Philip Sherman.
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Sherman Forums
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Miscellaneous Sherman Databases
Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Philip Sherman. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Philip Sherman
Philip Sherman
Philip Sherman (1611–1687) was a prominent leader and founding settler of Portsmouth in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Coming from Dedham, Essex in southeastern England, he and several of his siblings and cousins settled in New England. His first residence was in Roxbury in the Massachusetts Bay Colony where he lived for a few years, but he became interested in the teachings of the dissident ministers John Wheelwright and Anne Hutchinson, and at the conclusion of the Antinomian Controversy he was disarmed and forced to leave the colony. He went with many followers of Hutchinson to establish the town of Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island, later called Rhode Island. He became the first secretary of the colony there, and served in many other roles in the town government. Sherman became a Quaker after settling in the Rhode Island colony, and died at an advanced age, leaving a large progeny.
Source: Philip Sherman, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Sherman
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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