Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Weir was born on 26 July 1809, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Samuel Thomas Weir, was 22 and his mother, Mary Jane Brown, was 22. He married Elizabeth Caroline Clark on 14 November 1845, in Adams, Burton Township, Adams, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1848 and lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Bishopwearmouth, Durham, England, United Kingdom in 1871. He registered for military service in 1846. He died on 25 July 1873, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Thomas Wire, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: John Thomas Weir - birth-name: Thomas Weir
- Thomas Weir, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · Kentucky Bend Created
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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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Served in Mormon Battalion
Thomas was 3rd Corporal, Company A. He left behind a wife who was 3 months pregnant. At one point, Thomas and a companion were captured by the enemy. They were taken to an adobe cabin and held capt …
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