When John Hamden Dyer was born in 1813, in Calais, Washington, Maine, United States, his father, Jones Dyer Jr., was 37 and his mother, Lydia Knight, was 25. He died on 29 March 1836, in his hometown, at the age of 23.
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English: occupational name for a dyer of cloth, from Middle English deier, degher ‘dyer’ (Old English dēag ‘dye’; the verb is a back-formation from the agent noun). Compare Dexter . The name is typical of southern England. In the Midlands Dexter is the more common equivalent and in northern England Lister .
Irish (Sligo and Antrim): variant of Dwyer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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