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The weir Surname

weir Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish and English: topographic name for someone who lived by a dam or weir on a river. Compare Ware.
  2. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Mhaoir ‘son of the steward’ (see McNair).
  3. Irish: Anglicized form, based on an erroneous translation (as if from Gaelic cora ‘weir’, ‘stepping stones’), of various Gaelic names such as Ó Corra and Ó Comhraidhe (see Corr and Curry).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The weir name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the weir family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of weir Families in the US in 1920
Number of weir families
 178-354
 60-177		 1-59
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 674 - Messages: 1586
ThreadAuthorReplies
Linking all Weirs gillianweir 65
Weir and Walker in VA and TN Margaret Robe Summitt 2
sarah weir (wier) bell carole ann tryels (croker) 12
Weir Family Site Gill Weir 54
Amanda Weir mbrowder53190 0
Daniel Ware and Magdalene Ritter of PA mikemcmurray11 0
WEIRS of NC,VA,MANHATTAN Doreen Taylor 2
J. E. Weir of FL 1932 arnolaa 1
Isabell(e? a?) Weir (married to Toal) of Port Glasgow or Ireland? djunqx 0
Donald Alexander Weir Flo Keeler 22
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