When Francis Lockwood Byers was born on 6 September 1876, in Mitchell, Perth, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Byers, was 34 and his mother, Emma Humberstone, was 22. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1876. He died on 17 February 1880, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 3.
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Scottish (Borders) and English (Cumberland and Durham): topographic name for someone who lived by a cattleshed, Middle English byre, or a habitational name from any of several places called with Old English b̄re ‘cattleshed’, for example Byers Green in County Durham or Byres near Edinburgh.
English: variant of Byer , with either an original plural or a post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: variant of Byas .
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