Mawer Family Tree research resources
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Mawer records on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out your Mawer family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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Historical References
"MAVER, MAYOR, MAWER. From Gaelic moor, a subordinate officer in various capacities, a steward. The Scots pronunciation is Mawr. Mavor is a Speyside surname. Wille Mawar and Johnne Mawar were declared innocent of any part in the detention of King James m in Edinburgh Castle, 1482 (Lennox, n, p. 123). Walter Mawer witnessed a bond of caution in 1564 (ER., xrx, p. 530). John Mawar in Urquhart was warnea to appear before the Lord Regent, 1574, and David Mawer of the Loch (Lochs near Urquhart) was slain by some Inneses, 1576. Thomas Maueris is witness in Aberdeen, 1577 (SCM., n, p. 45), and Mark Mawar was member of Scots parliament for Elgin, 1593 (Hanna, n, p. 505). Michael Mawar was portioner of Urquhart, 1587, and John Mawer was a portioner there, 1595 (SCM., n, p. 129). Alexander Mawer was tenant under the marquis of Huntly, 1600 (ibid., rv, p. 287), and another Alexander Mawer was mair-depute in Aberdeen, 1688 (RFC., 3. ser. xm, p. 263). Mark Mawer of Mawerstoun (the town or tun of the moor) is in record, 1608 (Cawdor, p. 222), and Magister Walter Mawer was heir of Walter Mawer of Mawerstoun in lands in Fife, 1608 (Sc. Ant., vi, p. 40; Retours, Fife, 193). Mark Mavers was prisoner in the tolbooth of Elgin, 1686 (RFC., 3. ser. xn, p. 258), and John Maver of Overmest was indweller in Garmouth, parish of Urquhart, 1697 (Moray). William Maver in Banff (b. 1775) edited an edition of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary in 1809 with several thousand additions. In Anglicized spelling of Gaelic names w was often used for o. English MAWER, from mawer, 'a mower,' is of different origin. "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)
DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Mawer Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Mawer Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Mawer family tree.
Look at Mawer Parish Records at Find My Past.
Look at the UK registered births, marriages and deaths for the Mawer family name using the FreeBMD database.
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Look at the LDS Database for records of the Mawer family.
Research the Mawer surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Mawer Military records.
Mawer Family Tree Databases
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Miscellaneous Mawer Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on the Mawer family. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Use the Surname Map project to look at the current distribution of the Mawer surname in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Romania.
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