When Josephine Pauline Myers was born on 23 September 1896, in Maryland, United States, her father, Luther Roger Myers, was 44 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Harper, was 40. She lived in Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States in 1910 and Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States in 1950. She died on 12 December 1960, in Brooklyn Park, Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Brooklyn Park, Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States.
Irish (Tipperary, Limerick and Waterford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meidhir ‘descendant of Meidhir’, with post-medieval excrescent -s. Meidhir is a personal name based on meidhir ‘mirth’.
English (northern): variant of Myer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English (northern): habitational name from one or more of the minor placenames derived from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr) in the plural form, such as Melmerby Mire in Melmerby, or Mires in Docker (both Cumbria).
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