When Norton George H Sawyer was born in 1898, in Mutford, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, Norton Arthur Sawyer, was 26 and his mother, Edith Jane Crews, was 22. He died in 1898, in his hometown, at the age of 0.
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English: occupational name for someone who earned his living by sawing wood, from Middle English sauer(e), sauw(i)er, also sagh(i)er, sag(i)er ‘sawyer’, a derivative of Old English sagu ‘saw’.
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname, or translation into English of Jewish Seger or some other surname meaning ‘sawyer’, e.g. German Sager and Slovenian Žagar (see Zagar ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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