Elizabeth Weir was born about 1714, in Amherst, Amherst, Virginia, British Colonial America. She married Captain Thomas Bell Sr about 1733, in Franklin, Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1819, in Barren, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 106.
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"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."
On June 1, 1792, Kentucky became the 15th state. It was the first state west of the Appalachian Mountains
In 1796, the Wilderness Road opened up for wagon use. The route was used by colonial and early settlers to reach Kentucky from the East. It started in Virginia, and went southward to Tennessee and then went north to Kentucky. The main danger of this route was Native American attacks.
Scottish and English: topographic name for someone who lived by a dam or weir on a river, from Middle English, Older Scots wer(e) ‘weir; fish-trap’. Compare Ware and Wear . In northern England and lowland Scotland there has been much confusion with the Irish and Scottish Gaelic names in 2, 4 and 5 below.
Scottish: in Scotland, this surname was sometimes used for Gaelic Mac an Mhaoir ‘son of the steward’, more often Anglicized as McNair .
Scottish (of Norman origin): surname of a family of Blackwood (Lanarkshire), which is said to be descended from Ralph de Ver, a Norman baron associated with William the Lion between 1174 and 1184. The change in pronunciation from Vere to Were would be unusual in Anglo-Norman French, and the true source of the surname may lie elsewhere. One possibility is Wierre in Pas-de-Calais. Another possibility is that the surname may represent versions of the Norman surname de la Were ‘of the war’, a nickname for a warrior; see Warr .
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