Why don't you look were they lived and what was their occupation, because the acceptance of a last name many time was based on the trade of the father . at about the year 1400 CE
So is Meyer the same as Mayer = is a painter
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Why don't you look were they lived and what was their occupation, because the acceptance of a last name many time was based on the trade of the father . at about the year 1400 CE
So is Meyer the same as Mayer = is a painter
I know my grandfather who was a Meyer who either immigrated to the US from Germany with his parents and brother when he was young or was born in the US and had German ancestry. I believe my grandfather became a mechanic or owned a mechanic shop after he served in the US Navy back in the forties.
I did some research on the two last names Meyer and Mayer and I found them both to be occupational heredity names for somebody who was a mayor.
Meyer and its variants are occupational heredity surnames for an ancestor who was a mayor. So different mayors in different parts of Europe with a job title sounding like mayor could have adopted the name Meyer or one of it variants without being connected to other Meyers.
Everyone is related if you go back far enough.
That is true. I probably have plenty of relatives.
I have discovered that researching your ancestry online using your last name alone is ineffective because the information you get is not always accurate. It is best to research your ancestry through your family or family records. Based on what I know through my family I am a German, Polish, Irish, and Russian American.
I believe if you tossed the Irish out it would be more realistic.
I am not lying about being Irish my friend.
Up to 1945 Irish was an unknown creature in Europa
I believe what is today Ireland was once part of the British Empire before they declared independence. I believe they officially gained independence from the British Empire on April 24th 1916. The 1937 Constitution named this independent state Ireland. Ireland became a republic in 1949 and so ended its membership of the British Commonwealth.
So you see if you were tracing your ancestry before 1940 Ireland was not probably on the map, probably like Scotland now.
Ireland had been known as the Lordship of Ireland from 1171 -1541, the Kingdom of Ireland from 1541 - 1800, and it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 -1922.
As you mention before it got its independence after ww l Otherwise it was a dumb colony no matter nice name you want to give her.