Where Did the Last Name Weaver Come From

Origin of the Name Weaver

The Weaver family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. The name Weaver is of English origin and is usually an occupational name, describing a weaver of cloth, a very important job in medieval times.

Over the centuries Surnames developed

a wide number of variants. Different spellings of the same name can be traced back to an original root. Additionally when a bearer of a name emigrated it was not uncommon that their original name would be incorrectly transcribed in the record books at their new location. Surnames were also often altered over the years

based on how they sounded phonetically and depending on the prevailing political conditions it may have been advantageous to change a name from one language to another.

Variants of

the name Weaver

include Weever, Weavers, Weevers, Weafer, Wafer, Wever and many others. Thee root of the name is the old English word 'wefan', meaning 'to weave'. The Cheshire town of 'Weavers Hall' is recorded in the ancient 'Domesday Book' as Wevre and Wevre and is located upon the river Weaver, which provides an alternative origin of the name, from the word 'wefere' meaning a winding river or stream. A very early record of the name refers to a Simon de Wevere who was recorded in the Assize Court Rolls of Cheshire in the year 1259.

Names were recorded in these ancient documents

to make it easier for their overlords to collect taxes and to keep records of the population at any given time. When the overlords acquired land by either force or gifts from their rulers, they created charters of ownership for themselves and their vassals. It was by creating, maintaining and updating these reference books that they were able to maintain their authority and enforce laws.

In Ireland

this name and its variants

were introduced into Ulster

Province by settlers who arrived from England

and Scotland

, especially during the seventeenth century. It was the 'Plantations of Ireland

' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that marked the end of Gaelic supremacy in Ireland

. While the influx of settlers in the wake of the earlier Anglo-Norman invasion of the twelfth century resulted in a full integration into Irish

society of the new arrivals, the same never occurred with the Ulster

Planters who maintained their own distinct identity.

The Weaver coat of arms came into existence centuries ago. The process of creating coats of arms (also often called family crests) began in the eleventh

century although a form of Proto-Heraldry may have existed in some countries prior to this. The new art of Heraldry made it possible for families and even individual family members to have their very own coat of arms, including all Weaver descendants.

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