When Nicholas Ware was born in 1700, in Gloucester, Gloucester, Virginia, United States, his father, Edward Ware, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Leigh Lea, was 21. He married Sarah Samuel about 1719. He died in 1744, in St. Marys, Pleasants, Virginia, United States, at the age of 44.
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English:
topographic name for someone who lived by or looked after a dam or weir on a river (from Old English wær, wer, Middle English war(e), warre, wer(e), werre ‘weir’), or a habitational name from a place called with this word, such as Weare (Somerset), Weare Giffard (Devon), or Ware (Hertfordshire).
topographic name for someone who lived by a horse pond or fish pond, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English wayour, which became early modern English ware, wear.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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