When William Frederick MEYER was born on 30 May 1916, in Otis, Washington, Colorado, United States, his father, Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer, was 35 and his mother, Sophie Johanna Radke, was 34. He lived in Santiago Township, Sherburne, Minnesota, United States for about 20 years. He died in March 1986, in Clear Lake, Sherburne, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Santiago Township, Sherburne, Minnesota, 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).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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