Brief Life History of Leuretta Pearl
When Leuretta Pearl Weir was born on 18 August 1916, in Monticello, Green, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Lemuel Oscar Weir, was 35 and her mother, Daisy Pearl Barker, was 31. She lived in Dane, Wisconsin, United States in 1920. She died on 2 June 2004, in Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Sextonville, Richland, Wisconsin, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (5)
- Leuretta Weir in household of L O Weir, "United States Census, 1920"
- Leuretta P Or Rita Toney, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Leuretta Toney, "United States Social Security Death Index"
Spouse and Children
1930–1975 Male
1916–2004 Female
Parents and Siblings
1881–1951 Male
1885–1971 Female
Siblings (5)
1903–1970 Female
1905–1971 Male
1914–1987 Female
1916–2004 Female
1920–1994 Female
World Events (8)
1917
Age 1
1919 · Minimum Wage Laws Passed
Age 3
1941
Age 25
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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