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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Weaver
Name Distribution of Weaver Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
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 Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Weaver families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Weaver Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Weaver families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Weaver Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Weaver census records
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Military Service by Weaver
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