You forgot about MARRS, which is southern for MYERS. I've seen that variation in Virginia. Katie >From: Chrystie Myes <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [MOYERS] RE: Our Surname - Variations and Meanings >Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:37:59 -0400 > >Our Surname - Variations and Meanings > >From records found at the Westminster Library, Carroll County, Maryland > >*In no way do I necessarily agree with the below statements. > >MOYERS MYERS SURNAME VARIATIONS > >MEYER - German, from the Old High German MEIER meaning "Tenant Farmer" >orone >who oeversee's tenant farmers. > >MEIER - German, meaning a "Steward" or "Supervisor". > >MAYER - French, (Old French) meaning "Cutter or Sellerof Hoop Poles" (don't >ask)... there are other variations of this spelling such as: >MAYEUR meaning "MAYOR" or "Squire". > >I have seen this spelled also as MAHER(S) and MIER(S) as well as MEYER(S) >but my research shows that the MAYER'S, orginally spelled as MAJOR and >MAJER >(European dialect dictates their nouns, verbs, etc.. differently then as >described and/or spelled in English); One line of MAYER'S that I've studied >extensively here in Maryland and PA have proved records dating back the >1400's from the old Imperial City of Ulm in Wurtemburg, German); this line >was of actually blood lined to the Swedish and Swiss - German ancestry). > >MOYER - Irish, an anglicized form of the Irish name MAC AN MAOR meaning >"son >of the Steward" and very similar in orgin to the Scottish surname of MAC >NAIR. >*Again, I have found that MOYER has many different origins; from German >spelled as above MAJER; later MAYER to MOYER once this line arrived in >Germanna, VA - also I personally have seen the same lines spelled as MUIR, >MOIUR etc. > >MYHRE - Norweigian, from the old Norse MYRR meaning "Dweller at the Swamp". >(Probably where my line stems from ;) Often anglicized to MYER. (Oh great). > >MYERS (1) - English, meaning "from or at the time of the Mire" - shows up >in >America 1800 on. > >MYRES - * this is my observation - I believe that either the census takers >wrote MYERS MIRES and MEYERS as it sounded ca1840 on in the southern areas >of the US; and could be a variation of surnames previously mentioned in >above sentence. > >MYERS (2) - Hebrew from MEIR and MEOR meaing "Light or Luminary" and I >agree >totally with this. Alot of MYERS have Jewish ancestry - I know that some, >fearing scrutiny wished to remain "un-orthodoxed" to their heritage. Sad. > >MIRE - English again stemming from "Old French" meaning "Doctor". > >Chrystie > >BROOKOVER, COWGER, KRABAL, MOYERS, MYRES, SWECKER >--------------------------- # --------------------------- >Rootsweb List Administrator - [email protected] >Homestead for MYERS GENEALOGY.COM at: >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chrystiem/myersfam.html > > > > >==== MOYERS Mailing List ==== >SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX (SSDI) UPDATED; >Just Goto: http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi >-- MOYERS Rootsweb Newsgroup -- > >============================== >Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! >http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.