When Frederick Henrich Meyer was born on 25 May 1748, in German Flatts, Herkimer, New York, United States, his father, Johann Henrich Meyer, was 32 and his mother, Anna Maria Getman, was 26. He married Anna Margreta Weaver about 1772, in Herkimer, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 18 July 1822, in his hometown, at the age of 74, and was buried in Mohawk, German Flatts, Herkimer, New York, United States.
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German and Swiss German: from Middle High German meier, a status name for a steward, bailiff, or overseer, which later came to be used also to denote a tenant farmer, which is normally the sense in the many compound surnames formed with this term as a second element. Originally it denoted a village headman (ultimately from Latin maior ‘greater, superior’). This form of the surname is also established in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine); see also 3 below. Compare Maier , Mayer , Meier , and Myer .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Meyer, from Hebrew Meir ‘enlightener’, a derivative of or ‘light’ with the prefix m-. Compare Maier , Majer , Major , Mayer , Mayor , Meier , and Meir .
Dutch: variant, also Flemish and Americanized, of Meijer , a cognate of 1 above. This surname is also established in South Africa, where it was also brought from France (see 1 above).
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