Since I can speak german a little bit I've discovered that it's lacking of -er and it should be Schermacher but I don't kno who it is and that's not my surname , it's changed and I'm scared because I've read on american websites that most of makers are jews
but since I don't have -er that makes me simply "scharmach" which without -er means ploughman not the ploughmaker
Ploughman fits a person of polish descent
and I really hope that I'm not a poor german jew(there wasn't many polish jews in Kociewie area)
I'm of polish descent from village lol...And indeed people from my family were farmers
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history of Scharmach name
I was a Shermer. We have a bible of great, great uncle named Authur Scharmach. We know he was send to the USA by his mother to avoid draft into the Prussian Army. Any idea of place of origin? I was told we are German, but maybe we are polish?