Weaver Family History
Weaver Name Meaning
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
wefer(e) ‘winding stream’.Translated form of
German Weber.
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Name Distribution of Weaver Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Weaver families
 1,552 - 3,101  518 - 1,551 |
 1 - 517  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Weaver families
|
517 - 1,031 173 - 516 |
1 - 172 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Weaver families
|
11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Weaver census records
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Weaver Family Origin
Weaver Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Weaver
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Weaver Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Weaver census records
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Weaver Civil War Service Records
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