Brief Life History of Boyer
When Boyer was born in 1791, in Lebanon Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, her father, John Frederic Boyer, was 31 and her mother, Magdalena D. Shalley, was 23.
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Family Time Line
Sources (3)
- Legacy NFS Source: Boyer - birth-name: Boyer
Parents and Siblings
1760–1816 Male
1768–1816 Female
Siblings (12)
1783– Female
1789–1876 Male
1791– Female
1793–1855 Female
1793– Female
+7 More Children
Name Meaning
French: regional variant of Bouvier ‘herdsman’. This surname is also found in Haiti. Compare Bouyea and Boyea .
Altered form of German Bayer or Beyer .
German: habitational name for someone from Boye (near Celle-Hanover).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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