Brief Life History of Sylvester
Sylvester Sears was born in 1724, in Bladen, North Carolina, United States. He married Rebecca Raiford about 1747, in North Carolina, United States. He died in 1784, in his hometown, at the age of 60.
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1724–1784 Male
1727–1758 Female
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1776
Age 52
1776
Age 52
Name Meaning
Irish (Kerry): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Saoghair ‘son of Saoghar’, a borrowing in Anglo-Norman Ireland of the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Saher, Seier (Old French Seheri), from ancient Germanic Sigeheri, Sighari, composed of the elements sig‘victory’ + hari, heri ‘army’. See Sayer 5.
English: variant of Sayers .
Americanized form of French (or French Canadian) Cyr and French Saint-Cyr (see St. Cyr ), with the addition of excrescent -s, a common feature of Americanized surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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