Meurer/Maurer Name Study

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This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the surname Meurer and its variants.

History

The surname Meurer and Maurer are names derived from an occupation – in this case, a tradesman. The names are derived from the Middle High German word miurer, which translates as one who builds with stone; that is, a stone mason.

Another derivation of the name Meurer appears to be derived from the german word mauer, meaning wall.

The earliest record of this surname and its variants dates back to the thirteenth century.

• 1271, a Hainrich Murer was residing in Verengen.
• 1307, a Wernher der (the) Miurer was living in Mengen
• 1312, a Cuonrad der Murer was a judge from Herrenberg.
• 1563, a Barbara Meurer married Brosius Herman in Schwarzbach, Chemnitz.
• 1606 (27th September), an Adolph Meurer was christened the son of Henrich and Margaretha Meurer this took place in the Catholic Church of St. Lambert, Duesseldorf.

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Study Objectives

The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect. Please contact the project leader, add the category Category:Meurer Name Study (in double square brackets within your text area) to your Meurer profiles, add your questions to the bulletin board, add details of your name research, etc.

It is intended that persons who were born with the surname Meurer or spelling variants, should be included in this one name study.

What can this name study achieve? This page is easily found by a simple web search on the name Meurer. Hopefully that will encourage people who have a connection with the name Meurer to add more Meurer individuals to Wikitree. As more people add family members, it is inevitable that new connections will occur to existing families in Wikitree. The result over time would be a large connected tree, where a picture will emerge of the family origins and how and when the Meurers spread across the world.

• Many Maurer Families immigrated to America from^[1] Koblenz (Coblenz was the spelling before 1926).

Many Maurers who migrated from Germany considered themselves Prussian first, and German second, during the early to mid 1800's. [2]

Name Variants

• Maurer
• Murer

Interesting Statistics

There were 1,795 Meurer individuals recorded in the 2000 USA census. According to the USA Census, the name Meurer had the following ranking among all surnames: In 1990, Meurer was ranked #13704. In 2000, Meurer was ranked #15083.

Coat of Arms

The Meurer 'Coat of Arms' is shown on this page; this is believed to be the most accurate, and is listed in a directory, Siebmachers Wappenbuch^[2], dated 1701^[3]

Coat of Arms Description

Heraldry; Tinctures, Fields, and Fess

The following describes the layout and symbolism of the crest and uses proper Heraldry terms to describe the components of the crest.

Per fess Or, and gules, in chief, and eagle displayed (per = two horizontal bands, fess = band across centre of shield, Or = Gold, gules = red)

Crest: out of a ducal crown, or, the eagle of the shield (ducal = Duke nobility)

Coat of arms : of Or (gold) over red (gules) split a top laurel in gold black eagle down a wall ; by black in twelve blocks of stone ; distributed gules (red), five, four, three.

Gem : The laurel helmet carries a gold laurel black eagle

Helmet covers : Gold and red

Early Immigrants

USA

The earliest recorded Meurer/Maurer to have emigrated to the USA was Georg Maurer and his wife Apolonia Dorothea Buchi Maurer, who arrived in New York from the Palatinate region of Germany in 1710. They traveled with their three children.

Australia

The earliest recorded Meurer/Maurer to have emigrated to Australia was Ernest Meurer and his wife Wilhelmine Heiscke, who arrived in Sydney from the Hessen, Germany in 1858. They traveled with their newborn child.

References

1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siebmachers_Wappenbuch
3. ↑ http://www.wappenbuch.com/D129.htm