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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Weir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:
England & Wales
Scotland
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
Weir census records
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Weir Family Origin
Weir Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Weir Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Weir Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Weir census records
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Military Service by Weir
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