When Cyrus Weaver was born on 12 December 1849, in Newry, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, George Washington Weaver, was 43 and his mother, Lovina Fetters, was 39. He lived in Freedom Township, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Blair Township, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. He died on 29 April 1928, in Newry, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Newry, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English: occupational name, from an agent derivative of Middle English weven ‘to weave’ (Old English wefan).
English: habitational name from a place on the Weaver river in Cheshire, now called Weaver Hall but recorded simply as Weuere in the 13th and 14th centuries. The river name is from Old English wēfer(e) ‘winding stream’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘weaver’, for example German Weber , Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) Tkacz or Tkach , Hungarian Takács (see Takacs ), and Slovenian Tkalec, Tekavec or Veber .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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