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and his wife, Isabel. This Thomas Boreraan (d. 1579) was a son of William Boreman who lived in 1525 in Banbury, a more important town near Claydon, England.
(Notei Benjamin Franklin's father lived in Banbury.)
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The surname acquired the tone and spelling of BOARDMAN or BORDMAN about the year 1676.
Prior thereto it appeared as BOREMAN or BORMAN, although in England the spelling BOWERMAN and BOREKAND were originally employed, stated to have been derived from the Anglo-Saxon terms bower and man, signifying the Office of a chamberlain.
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A descendant of ELEAZER and HANNAH (BOREMAN) PUTNAM was MARY G. ENDICOTT. who was the wife of Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary of Great Britain, and stepmother of HON. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, Prime Minister, whose name became associated with the Munich Agreement and sppeasement.
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