Brief Life History of Roy Vern
When Roy Vern Farmer was born on 26 October 1914, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, his father, Thomas Daniel Farmer, was 23 and his mother, Esther Inez Franklin, was 22. He married Nettie Jane Weddle on 16 May 1938, in Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States. He lived in Diamond Lake, Pend Oreille, Washington, United States in 1920 and Mead, Spokane, Washington, United States in 1930. He died on 26 December 1973, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Fairmount Memorial Park, Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States.
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- Roy V Farmer, "United States 1950 Census"
- Farmer, "Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965"
- Roy V Farmer, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
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Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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