When Teresa Agnes Meyer was born in October 1876, in Sonora, Tuolumne, California, United States, her father, Bernhard Meyer, was 37 and her mother, Ellen Maria Hoye, was 25. She married Frank P Mallard in 1900. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in East Sonora, Tuolumne, California, United States in 1910 and Judicial Township 1, Tuolumne, California, United States in 1940. She died on 11 July 1964, in Sonora, Tuolumne, California, United States, at the age of 87.
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).
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