When John Wesley Weaver was born on 10 September 1863, in Rawdon Township, Hastings, Ontario, Canada, his father, Gustavis Weaver, was 36 and his mother, Annas Cummings, was 33. He married Catherine Jane Potts on 14 October 1889, in Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Manitoba, Canada in 1901. He died on 26 September 1936, in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States, at the age of 73.
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English: occupational name, from an agent derivative of Middle English weven ‘to weave’ (Old English wefan).
English: habitational name from a place on the Weaver river in Cheshire, now called Weaver Hall but recorded simply as Weuere in the 13th and 14th centuries. The river name is from Old English wēfer(e) ‘winding stream’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘weaver’, for example German Weber , Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) Tkacz or Tkach , Hungarian Takács (see Takacs ), and Slovenian Tkalec, Tekavec or Veber .
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