Lawrence Laughlin Weir

Male2 June 1929–9 April 1995

Brief Life History of Lawrence Laughlin

When Lawrence Laughlin Weir was born on 2 June 1929, his father, Ralph Irving Weir, was 30 and his mother, Reta Althea Wilson, was 24. He died on 9 April 1995, at the age of 65.

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Ralph Irving Weir
1898–1984
Reta Althea Wilson
1905–1987
Ethel Lee Weir
1925–2013
Leland Irving Weir
1927–1984
Lawrence Laughlin Weir
1929–1995
Earl Douglas Weir
1931–1993
Delores May Weir
1936–2000
Myrtle Veronica “Tiny” Weir
1946–2005

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    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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