Brief Life History of Henrich
When Henrich Moyer was born on 11 May 1768, in Tulpehocken Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Johann George Meyer, was 34 and his mother, Maria Elisabeth Stohr, was 22. He married Fronica about 1788, in Tulpehocken Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. He died about 1774, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 7.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Henrich Moyer - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Henrich Moyer
- Legacy NFS Source: Henrich Moyer - death: about 1774; Pennsylvania, United States
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Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Meyer or Mayer .
French: status name for a sharecropper, from an angent derivative of Old French moie ‘half’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of Dutch Mooijer: surname associated with Maaijer, an occupational name for a mower or reaper (see Maier ). However, almost all bearers come from Volendam (North Holland), where the surname originated as Pooijer, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman (peurder) or a nickname for someone carrying a ponjaard ‘dagger’. The surname was changed to Mooijer due to the connotation with Dutch pooier ‘bully, fancy-man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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