When James Peters was born in 1793, in Sandy Cove, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Maurice Smith Peters, was 33 and his mother, Charity Titus, was 22. He married Avisa Foster in 1812, in Westport, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Brier Island, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1871 and Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1881. He died on 4 April 1885, in Meteghan, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 92, and was buried in Brier Island, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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English, Scottish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . This surname (mainly of German origin) is also found in Sweden, Denmark, France (Alsace and Lorraine), and some other European countries. In North America it has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, such as Albanian Pjetraj and Pjetrushi, patronymics from the personal name Pjetër ‘Peter’ and its pet form Pjetrush; see also below and also examples at Peterson .
Irish: Anglicized form (translation) of Gaelic Mac Pheadair ‘son of Peter’.
Americanized form of Dutch and North German Pieters .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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