When Harriet Ayer was born on 9 January 1866, in Boston, Erie, New York, United States, her father, Albert Ayer, was 24 and her mother, Cornelia Morehouse, was 20.
English and Scottish: from Middle English eir, eyr ‘heir’ (Anglo-Norman French heyr, Old French (h)eir, Latin heres). Forms such as Richard le Heyer were frequent in Middle English, denoting a man who was well known to be the heir to the main property in a particular locality, either one who had already inherited or one with great expectations.
English: from the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Aier (ancient Germanic Agihari).
English: variant of Hair .
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