[Ancestor] Thayer

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1 M Thomas Thayer ¹

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         Spouse: Margery Wheeler (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Thayer

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"Tayer"; Thayer: The origin of the name is, as of all surnames, signified by the occupation followed by the persons, or signified by the locality or some personal peculiarity.
Judge Horace Metcalf, who has examined the English law on the subject of the "Tayer" name spelled in the different ways in those reports (Thayer, Thear, Theyer, etc.) is of German origin, and in that language signifies an ox or a cow, or dealer in such. Consequently it seems probable that these ancestors took their surname from the continent, and it is synonymous with a bullock in the English language. We do also know that England was over run by the Danes and Saxons one thousand years ago, more or less, and the counties of Kent and Essex on the east coast of England passed into the possession of those marauders composed of intruders from the opposite coast. We next find a coat-of-arms conferred on Augustine Thayor, of Thaydone, a small village in the county of Essex, eighteen miles from London.
The Thayers, when coming to America, chose their residence in Braintree, Massachusetts. It has been a great pleasure to many of their descendants to trace back their progeniture in an uninterrupted series, to those who first landed on the unhospitable shores of New England.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 228.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 230.