Mary Elizabeth Meyer was born on 5 December 1890, in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States as the daughter of George Mayer and Regina Mayer. She married Lewis John Lloyd on 3 July 1912, in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 16 July 1974, in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Grandview Cemetery, Southmont, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States.
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German and Swiss German: from Middle High German meier, a status name for a steward, bailiff, or overseer, which later came to be used also to denote a tenant farmer, which is normally the sense in the many compound surnames formed with this term as a second element. Originally it denoted a village headman (ultimately from Latin maior ‘greater, superior’). This form of the surname is also established in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine); see also 3 below. Compare Maier , Mayer , Meier , and Myer .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Meyer, from Hebrew Meir ‘enlightener’, a derivative of or ‘light’ with the prefix m-. Compare Maier , Majer , Major , Mayer , Mayor , Meier , and Meir .
Dutch: variant, also Flemish and Americanized, of Meijer , a cognate of 1 above. This surname is also established in South Africa, where it was also brought from France (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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