Brief Life History of John William
When John William Moyer was born on 6 November 1854, in Albemarle, Virginia, United States, his father, Jacob Joseph Moyer, was 27 and his mother, Sarah Jane Kirby, was 26. He lived in St. Anne's Parish, Albemarle, Virginia, United States in 1860.
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- John W Moyer in household of Jacob Moyer, "United States Census, 1860"
- John W. Mayer, "Virginia, Births and Christenings, 1853-1917"
- John W Moyer in the 1860 United States Federal Census
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1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Meyer or Mayer .
French: status name for a sharecropper, from an angent derivative of Old French moie ‘half’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of Dutch Mooijer: surname associated with Maaijer, an occupational name for a mower or reaper (see Maier ). However, almost all bearers come from Volendam (North Holland), where the surname originated as Pooijer, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman (peurder) or a nickname for someone carrying a ponjaard ‘dagger’. The surname was changed to Mooijer due to the connotation with Dutch pooier ‘bully, fancy-man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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