Brief Life History of Susan
Susan Weir was born on 8 November 1858, in Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom as the daughter of Robert Weir and Elizabeth Young. She lived in Eastwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland in 1871.
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Family Time Line
Sources (3)
- Susan Weir in household of Robert Weir, "Scotland Census, 1871"
- Susan Weir, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Susan Weir, "Scotland Church Records and Kirk Session Records, 1658-1919"
Parents and Siblings
1823–1901 Male
– Female
Siblings (12)
1852–1937 Male
1857– Female
1858– Female
1861– Female
1864– Female
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World Events (8)
1868 · The Representation of the people (Scotland) Act 1868
Age 10
1884
Age 26
1890 · Opening of the Forth Railway Bridge.
Age 32
Name Meaning
Scottish and English: topographic name for someone who lived by a dam or weir on a river, from Middle English, Older Scots wer(e) ‘weir; fish-trap’. Compare Ware and Wear . In northern England and lowland Scotland there has been much confusion with the Irish and Scottish Gaelic names in 2, 4 and 5 below.
Scottish: in Scotland, this surname was sometimes used for Gaelic Mac an Mhaoir ‘son of the steward’, more often Anglicized as McNair .
Scottish (of Norman origin): surname of a family of Blackwood (Lanarkshire), which is said to be descended from Ralph de Ver, a Norman baron associated with William the Lion between 1174 and 1184. The change in pronunciation from Vere to Were would be unusual in Anglo-Norman French, and the true source of the surname may lie elsewhere. One possibility is Wierre in Pas-de-Calais. Another possibility is that the surname may represent versions of the Norman surname de la Were ‘of the war’, a nickname for a warrior; see Warr .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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