The name Marshman is a family, or surname

Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

 which originated in England

England

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 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

Marsham, Norfolk

Marsham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, about north of Norwich.It covers an area of and had a population of 674 in 282 households as of the 2001 census.For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Broadland....

 in Norfolk

Norfolk

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, or in Mersham

Mersham

Mersham is a small village and civil parish, three miles east of Willesborough and the town of Ashford in the county of Kent.-History:Historically Mersham has been a farming community with close ties to the local market town of Ashford. The small village dates back to Saxon times and is mentioned...

 in Kent

Kent

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. There is a strong settlement of the Marshman family in Wiltshire

Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...

, especially near Dilton Marsh

Dilton Marsh

Dilton Marsh is a village and parish in the County of Wiltshire, in the south west of England.-Location:Its closest town is Westbury, which lies due east of the village....

.

Today in East Anglia

East Anglia

East Anglia is a traditional name for a region of eastern England, named after an ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom, the Kingdom of the East Angles. The Angles took their name from their homeland Angeln, in northern Germany. East Anglia initially consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk, but upon the marriage of...

, in England, you can still come across workers known as Marshmen - and today they largely collect reeds and rushes for the thatching

Thatching

Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge , rushes, or heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates...

 industry.

Spelling variations include:

• Marsham
  Marsham, Norfolk
  Marsham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, about north of Norwich.It covers an area of and had a population of 674 in 282 households as of the 2001 census.For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Broadland....
  
  ,
• Marshan
  Marshan
  Marshan may refer to:Marshania - a princely surname in the Republic of Abkhazia.*A variant spelling of the surname Marshman or Marshania*Marshan Township, Minnesota...
  
  ,
• Marshom,
• Marshon
• Marshania
• Amarshan.

The name might apply to:

People

• Arthur Marshman, English architect
• Bobby Marshman
  Bobby Marshman
  Bobby Marshman , was an American racecar driver.Born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Marshman died in San Antonio, Texas from injuries sustained in a tire test in Phoenix, Arizona. He drove in the USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1961-1964 seasons, with 49 career starts, including each...
  
  , American racing car driver
• D. M. Marshman Jr., screenwriter
• Edward Marshman, CIA Agent, Lockerbie Bombings
• Hannah Marshman
  Hannah Marshman
  Hannah Marshman was a missionary.She was the daughter of John Shepherd, a farmer, and his wife Rachel, and the granddaughter of John Clark, pastor of the Baptist church at Crockerton, Wiltshire....
  
  , missionary
• John Clark Marshman
  John Clark Marshman
  John Clark Marshman, Indian scholar and philanthropist.Marshman was the first child of Joshua Marshman and Hannah Marshman and was born in August 1794 at Bristol, England where his father was at that time a schoolmaster, before later emigrating to India as a missionary...
  
  , missionary
• Joshua Marshman, missionary

• General Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan
  Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan
  Lieutenant General Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet, VC, GCB, DL was an Indian-born British soldier and politician....
  
  - Soldier

New world settlors

• Thomas Marsham - Virginia 1654
• Charles Marshom - Boston 1768
• James Marshman - British convict - sent to Maryland 1772.