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John O'Neill (View posts)
Posted: 6 Jan 2001 1:09PM GMT
Any information on people with the unusual surname Weafer would be welcome.

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Terence Weafer (View posts)
Posted: 11 Mar 2001 1:33PM GMT
john,
Well I dont have much but I am Terence Weafer. My Father was Charles Chester Weafer Jr. My mother is Mary T. Weafer. My grandfather was Charles Chester Weafer, his wife was Hellen. His brothers name was john. They came from Woburn, Massachusetts. I have two brothers Sean and Patrick.

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Posted: 15 Sep 2001 10:33PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 17 Mar 2002 1:12AM GMT
My maiden name weas Weafer. Father and grandfather were Francis and Dominic. Grandfather born in Boston/Sommerville area in 1884(6). His father was Patrick, born 1853(6) In Ireland, maybe County Cork. Married Mary Motherway. Would appreciate any information about these Weafers

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Stefanie Rogers (View posts)
Posted: 28 Dec 2001 10:17PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Weafer
My maiden name is Weafer.

My father's name is Ronald Francis Weafer his sister is Anne Weafer.

My grandfather's name is Ronald Joseph Weafer. His wife is Mary MacDonald Weafer. My grandfather's siblings are, Kenneth, Leonard, Arlene and Geraldine. There was another brother, I think, but I am not sure what his name is.

My father grew up in Woburn, MA. I'm not sure about my grandfather.

I would love to learn more about the Weafers, so please let me know what you have learned.
Posted: 5 Jan 2002 2:41AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 1 Dec 2002 12:19AM GMT
Surnames: DUFFY, DOHERTY, FLAHERTY, ODONNELL
Greatings. My wife's family DUFFY / O'DONNELL / FLAHERTY is related to a WEAFER family of Woburn and Vermont. My father in law lived with the WEAFERS as a child in Vermont when John WEAFER and Mary FLAHERTY moved to Vermont. There is a baseball field that every parent in Woburn knows called WEAFER field.

Noted below are the names we have in our file... the connection is pretty distant. I also have obits on John and Mary if you want to give me a fax number.

Good hunting... I believe there is a good amount of info on the WEAFERS in the Woburn Library.

Descendants of ?

1 ?
. +?
. 2 John WEAFER b: 1866 in Woburn, MA d: 3-27-1926 in Dorchester, MA
..... +Mary FLAHERTY b: Unknown in Woburn, MA d: 8-24-1925 in Morrisville, VT
..... 3 Dominic WEAFER b: Unknown
..... 3 John WEAFER b: Unknown
..... 3 Joseph WEAFER b: Unknown
..... 3 ? WEAFER b: Unknown d: Unknown
........ +John CANTY b: Unknown d: Unknown
. 2 Thomas WEAFER b: Unknown
. 2 George WEAFER b: Unknown

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Shelly (View posts)
Posted: 20 Feb 2002 9:14PM GMT
Classification: Query
Peggy,

My great grandfather's name was Dominic and was born in Boston Massachusetts. I don't know if we are related or not but if we are then there is information I can give you. I would really appreciate it if you e-mailed back or posted another message because my family is trying to do some research on our family history and it would be great if you had any additional information. I hope we can help each other out.

Shelly

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Shelly (View posts)
Posted: 20 Feb 2002 9:20PM GMT
Classification: Query
Jim,

My great grandfather was from Massachusetts and as far as I know he lived in the Boston area. I recognize the name Mary Flaherty from my family and can not give you any specifics because I do not have the with me, but I do believe we are somehow related. I do have some information that I do believe you will be interested in. Please e-mail or post a message because I am extremely interested in the information you have. As far as I know for sure I can tell your this: My great grandfather's name was Dominic Weafer. I am afraid I cannot tell you my great grandmother's name from the top of my head, but they had three children. My grandfather's name is Richard Weafer and he had a sister Barbara Weafer. I cannot remember the third siblings name. If you want additional information I can give it to you. Please e-mail or post soon!
Posted: 23 Feb 2002 6:08PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 1 Dec 2002 12:19AM GMT
Surnames: WEAFER, FLAHERTY DUFFY, CANTY
Hi... good to get your email... I couldn't make any direct connects. Is Vermont in your family history or Woburn, MA?

Attached is the info I have on this family. Their relationship to my wife's family is through marriage so we haven't researched it a lot. If there are any more direct connections, I would love to hear about them. Good hunting.... Jim

Descendants of John Weafer

1 John WEAFER b: 1866 in Woburn, MA d: 3-27-1926 in Dorchester, MA
. +Mary FLAHERTY b: Unknown in Woburn, MA d: 8-24-1925 in Morrisville, VT
. 2 Dominic WEAFER b: Unknown
. 2 John WEAFER b: Unknown
. 2 Joseph WEAFER b: Unknown
. 2 ? WEAFER b: Unknown d: Unknown
..... +John CANTY b: Unknown d: Unknown

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Barbara Cecil (View posts)
Posted: 24 Feb 2002 5:49AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Weafer
I have a Weafer family tree compiled by my father's cousin, Fr. Dan Barrett. My father, Richard Weafer, was born in Boston Mass. He is dead now, so I'm guessing on memory that Fr. Barrett is the one who compiled the information. My family is in Kentucky so I don't know many relatives in the Mass. area. However all the names you posted are on my list. Unfortunately my copy is old and I can't read some of the names. Beginning with the youngest generation, there is a Margaret Weafer I can't read the name under it, either her middle name or husband's name. There is a dash & then it says "3 girls". I take this to mean Margaret had 3 daughters. Above Margaret's name it looks like the name is Dominic Francis. Above this name is Alice, and Claire. These may be brothers & sisters? The two names above these names appear to be the parents. Their names are Dominic Weafer and Anne (the last name begins with an M). Their parents are Patrick Weafer and Mary Motherway, your great-grandparents. Patrick is the brother to my great-grandfather, John Weafer that married Mary Flaherty, both born in Ireland. Their parents names are Dominic Weafer and Mary Shea. I do not have the name of Dominic's father, only that there were 3 Weafer brothers, born in England between 1820 & 1835. Two of the brothers moved to Canada and the other one moved to Ireland. This one would be the father of Dominic Weafer and Catherine Weafer. I have only included names of those whom you seem to be directly decended from, but I have many more names of siblings if you are interested.

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Barbara Cecil (View posts)
Posted: 24 Feb 2002 7:14AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Weafer
My daughter, Shelly, showed me your message and told me she had replied to you. I have more information and thought I would send it to you. There are a lot of names here & if you want to keep them straight without getting confused, I suggest you write them down in a family tree format. I will start with 3 Weafer brothers, born in England between 1820 & 1835. I don't have their names. Two of the brothers moved to Canada and one moved to Ireland. The Ireland Weafer had two children, Dominic Weafer and Catherine Weafer. Dominic was born in Ireland and married Mary Shea. Dominic had 7 children. My copy is old and the names are hard to read so I'll do my best. Ellen, died at a very young age, Joseph, also died at a very young age, Thomas, who married Mary Eliz. Flaherty, John who married Mary Flaharety (my great-grandparents) George who married Bridget Fitzpatrick, Patrick who married Mary Motherway, and Catherine who married John Shea. Sinse both your wife and I are decendents of John Weafer & Mary Flaherty, I will only list their decendents. You didn't mention your wife's father's name so I don't know at this point where your tree branches off. My paper says that John was born in 1859, your records show 1866. Mary Flaherty was born in 1856 in Aran Isles - Bay Galway, Ireland. They had 6 children (my records & yours differ slightly). According to my records, Thomas died, a girl died, Dominic married Lucy Slayton (my grandparents), Joseph married Nellie (I can't read the last name), John born in 1884 married Eva Lord born in 1880, Mary born in 1891 (we called her Aunt Mayme) married John Canty born in 1880. Dominic & Lucy lived in Boston & had 3 children, Robert married Mary Orchard & had 3 children. Kathleen died at age 5, Bobby & wife Lisa had 4 children, & Mary & husband John had 1. Their second daughter was Barbara married to Roger Ploof & had 3 children. Rich & wife Diane had 2 children. Jeannie had 3 children. Danny died in his early 30's. He had 3 or 4 children. Dominic & Lucy's youngest son Richard (my father) married Lillian Payne. They moved to Owensboro, KY and had 9 children & 28 grandchildren (I'll spare you all the names). Dominic's brother Joseph & wife Nellie had one child, Mary Elizabeth. Brother John & wife Eva had 3 children: John married Catherine Hughes and had 4 children Jean, Katherine, John & Jeffrey. Edward married Mary (last name begins with a Wh) and had 3 children Edward, Chester and Ronald. Ronald married Eva (last name begins with an L) had two children, Donald & Patrick. Dominic's sister Mary Weafer (Aunt Mayme) and husband John Canty had one son John born in 1926 & died in 1945. Sorry if this is too confusing. Sinse I didn't know which family your wife decended from, I wanted to give it all to you. I have more names of more distant relatives if you are interested. Other records I have was a geneology compiled by Donald Weafer on 12/22/86. Mass. archives - South Boston Source: U.S.S. Samarra Passenger Lists 11/7/1873 - 9/1/1874 arrived Boston 4/17/1874. Among the passenger listed were Mary Wafer (notice the mispelling) age 45 and sons Patrick, age 20, Thomas, age 18, John, age 16, and Joseph age 9. Marriage record of John Wafer & Mary Flaherty. Source: Mass. Archives, South Boston. Date of marriage 9/4/1881. Wafer, John (age 22) First Marriage, born county Cork, Ireland. Parents: Dominic - Mary Shea. Joyce, Mary (Flaherty) (age 25) Second Marriage born Aran Isles, Galway Bay, Ireland. Parents Edward - Abby. Married by: Rev. John Quealy, Woburn, Mass. Naturalization: U.S. Circuit Court, Federal Archives, Waltham. John Wafer - Woburn - born County Cork, Ireland 1/25/1860 (this date is different than what both of us had) naturalized citizen age about 22 years, born on or about 1/25/1860. Arrived at Boston in District of Mass. on or about 4/10/1875 (15 yrs.). 1900 Federal Census - Bethel, Vermont Source: Fed. Archives, Waltham. Wefer (notice the new mispelling, this is getting interesting) John H., White, Jan. 1865 (?) Ireland. Mary, wife, b.d. 11/1857, John, son, b.d. 12/1885, Joseph, son b.d. 6/1889, Dominic, son, b.d. 12/1892, Mary E., daughter b.d. 6/1893. At the bottom of this page are the following corrections: Dominic's correct birthdate, 12/20/1890, Mary (Mayme) birthdate 6/24/1893. Per Rev. Daniel J. Barrett's Family Tree (my father's cousin) John H. Weafer born 1859 died 1927. Mary Flaherty born 1866 died 1925. I would love to have the obits on John & Mary but I don't have a fax. If you want anything further or want something clarified, let me know. If you know of any corrections to this information, as I said my paper is hard to read, please let me know.
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