When Sarah Beaver was born on 30 July 1786, in Maxatawny Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Dewalt Bieber, was 30 and her mother, Margaret Barbara Schaeffer, was 28. She married George Weber on 17 November 1812, in Norristown, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 9 July 1846, at the age of 59, and was buried in Mercersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English: habitational name from Belvoir in Leicestershire, pronounced beever (/bi:və/), so named with Old French beu, bel ‘fair, lovely’ + veïr, voir ‘to see’, i.e. a place with a fine view. This name may also be derived from any of several places in France called Beauvoir, for example in Manche, Somme, and Seine-Maritime, all of which have the same etymology as above.
English: nickname from Middle English bever, bevre (Old English beofor) ‘beaver’, possibly referring to a hard worker, or from some other fancied resemblance to the animal. The existence of patronymic forms such as Beaverson suggest that this may also have been a personal name.
Native American (Creek): from a translation into English of the Muscogee Creek clan name Echaswvlke (‘Beaver clan’), derived from a word meaning ‘beaver’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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