I like to know how far does the name Farmer goes and I'm a Farmer myself as you can tell of my last name bening Farmer. I found a uk web site that show that our name comes over there and the first person that came to america was settle in Virginia in 1607,very nice information there was a man in England that was name Sir George Farmer the Director of Shakespare Theatre WOW! If any of u other Farmers have more information please let me know ok. I do collect Fannie Farmer cookbooks all the time there very useful. :)