When Mary Wear was born on 28 November 1772, in Granville Township, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Elias Weare II, was 42 and her mother, Ruth Banks, was 36. She married Ezra Dunn on 7 January 1790, in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1772. She died on 18 November 1862, in Graywood, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 89.
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English (Northumbria):
topographic name for someone who lived by the Wear river in northeastern England. The river name is ancient, occuring in the form Vedra in Ptolemy's Geographia; it is probably from a Celtic word meaning ‘water’.
topographic name for someone who lived near a dam or weir, a variant of Ware 1, or a habitational name from a place called Weare, in Devon and Somerset, from Old English wær, wer ‘weir’.
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