When Catherine Sawyer was born on 5 November 1856, in Saint-Anicet, Huntingdon, Quebec, Canada, her father, Pierre Bercier Sawyer, was 33 and her mother, Eliza Josephte Saucier, was 31. She married Daniel David Besaw about 1875, in Potsdam, Potsdam, St. Lawrence, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Lawrence, St. Lawrence, New York, United States in 1880 and Potsdam, Potsdam, St. Lawrence, New York, United States in 1905. She died before 1930, in Potsdam, St. Lawrence, New York, United States.
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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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