When Miss Dorothy May Weber was born in September 1919, in Australia, her father, Mr Paul Gotthold Wilhelm Weber, was 42 and her mother, Miss Alice Katherine Marston Anthony, was 39. She died on 1 January 1995, at the age of 75.
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German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a weaver, Middle High German wëber, German Weber, an agent derivative of weben ‘to weave’. This form of the surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine), Poland, and the Netherlands. In Hungary it is mostly spelled Wéber and Véber. In Russia, Slovenia, Czechia, Slovakia, and Croatia it is (also) established in the Slavicized form Veber , which is in Czechia also spelled Vebr. Compare Waber , Weaber , Weaver , Webber , and Webre .
History: As a name of ultimately Swiss German origin the surname Weber is also established among the American Mennonites. However, descendants of the early Mennonite settlers, who came to PA in the early 18th century, mostly bear the Americanized form of the name (see Weaver ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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