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David Syer
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David | Report | 27 May 2007 09:03 |
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Based on several years of intensive research of my family name I can state the name Syer sometimes spelt Sire Sier Siar etc has its roots firmly in the agricultural farmlands of Suffolk.The name is prolific certainly as far back as the 1500s. Most of my ancestory was illiterate so when they stood in front of the vicar for births marriages and deaths and announced their name as Syer without being able to spell or write that particular clergyman guessed a spelling according to how it sounded to him at the time.As London expanded rapidly in the 1700s and 1800s many Syers economically migrated the shortish journey to find work in the capital away from the backbreaking drudge of farm labouring. That is why East London historicaly also has a record of the name also. It was the nearest part of London to the Suffolk countryside. David Syer |
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