When Albert Edward Sayer was born on 9 November 1906, in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, Henry James Sayer, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Jane Muddiman, was 30. He died on 11 April 1979, at the age of 72.
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1871–1947 Male
1876–1912 Female
1904–1975 Male
1906–1979 Male
English: common occupational name from Middle English sayer, a phonetic variant of Sawyer , which in Wales and neighboring English counties may have been reinforced by the synonymous Welsh saer ‘carpenter’ and everywhere by a possible borrowing into Middle English of Old French seieor, saieur ‘sawyer’.
English: rare occupational name perhaps denoting an assayer of metals, or a servant who tasted his lord's food before serving, from Middle English saiour ‘assayer, tester’ (a shortened form of Old French assaiour, ultimately from Late Latin exagium, a derivative of exagmināre ‘to weigh’).
English: rare occupational name for a professional reciter or minstrel, from Middle English seier(e) ‘speaker’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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