Weir Family History
Weir Name Meaning
Scottish and English: topographic name for someone who lived by
a dam or weir on a river. Compare Ware.Irish:
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Mhaoir ‘son of the
steward’ (see McNair).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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Weir
Name Distribution of Weir Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Weir families
 178 - 354  60 - 177 |
 1 - 59  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Weir families
|
196 - 389 66 - 195 |
1 - 65 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Weir families
|
1,400 - 2,798 467 - 1,399 |
1 - 466 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Weir Family Origin
Weir Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Weir
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Weir Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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