Brief Life History of James
When James Lever was born about 1694, in Darcy Lever, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Alexander Lever, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Ramsbotham, was 30. He married Hannah Wolfenden on 2 January 1718, in Bolton le Moors St Peter, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. He died from 31 October 1778 to 31 January 1779, in Darcy Lever, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, and was buried in Bolton le Moors St Peter, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
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- James Lever, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
- James Lever, "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991"
- James Leaver in entry for James Leaver and Mary Almond, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
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Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): nickname for a fleet-footed or timid person, from Old French levre ‘hare’ (from Latin lepus, genitive leporis). It may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of hares.
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a place thickly grown with rushes, from Old English lǣfer ‘rush, reed, iris’. Compare Laver . Great and Little Lever in Greater Manchester are named with this word (in a collective sense), so the surname may also be a habitational name from these places.
Dutch and North German: from the medieval personal names Lever, a variant of Liever (see Lieber ), and Levert, a variant of Lievert (see Liebhart ). This surname is very rare in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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