Brief Life History of Helen Mcclaren
Helen Mcclaren Weir was born on 20 October 1848, in Scotland as the daughter of sir james wier. She had at least 2 sons and 4 daughters with William Henry Abbott. She lived in Saugerties, Saugerties, Ulster, New York, United States in 1900 and Saugerties, Ulster, New York, United States in 1915. She died on 4 August 1925, at the age of 76, and was buried in Saugerties, Ulster, New York, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (7)
- Hellen Abbott in household of William H Abbott, "United States Census, 1900"
- Helen McLaren Weir Abbott, "Find A Grave Index"
- Helen Weir in entry for William Henry Abbott, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"
Spouse and Children
1849– Male
1848–1925 Female
Children (6)
1871– Female
1873–1919 Male
1875– Female
1876–1949 Female
1878– Female
+1 More Child
Parents and Siblings
World Events (8)
1854 · The Crimean War
Age 6
1863
Age 15
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Age 22
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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