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Free Research > F > Farmer > Family StoryUse the free genealogy search to quickly discover your family history or share your own! The Name Farmer
Farmer probably isn't what you expect. It is an English occupational name derived from the Middle East (Fermer), Latin Firmarias, and referred to the man who collected taxes and revenues and paid a fixed amount in exchange for that practice (Latin: Firmus=Fixed). Secondarily, it denoted a man who paid a fixed rent for the purpose of cultivation. The word Farmer in the context in which we know it today wasn't used until the 1600s. [--Helen Sharpe, Rocky Mount, North Carolina]
Many writers mistakenly labeled the word as a trade name meaning tiller on the field. Most Farmers a higher class. French-Norman name and family to England as companions of the Conqueror. One claims immigration to England from Picardy during reign of Edward III. Name appears as early as early 1400s Earliest recorded spelling is ffermer, probably means provisioner or quartermaster as does the name Stuart in Scotland. Spelled different ways: Fermour, Ffarmer, ffarmer, and Fermor and Farmer. [--Walter I. Farmer, ed. Margaret Farmer Planton, In America Since 1607: the Hollingsworth, Farmer, and Judkins Families; their Ancestors, Descendants and Many Related Families, p. 253, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1987.]
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