Mathers Genealogy





A medley of Mathers submitted by related and unrelated researchers of the Mathers surname. If you would like to add your Mathers to this site or if I can add a link to your site please e-mail me.

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Mathers
AL, FL, GA, TN, U.S.
NIrl; Quebec, Can; IL, IA, U.S.
OH, PA, WV, U.S.
OH, PA, WV, OR, U.S.
NIrl; PA, NY, FL, MN, SD, IL, U.S.

Mather
Derbyshire, Eng; Irl; IA, IL, NE, U.S.

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Mather, Mathur, Mathers, Matthers


Alan le Mathere 1249 Records of the Borough of Nottingham, vol. 1, Nottingham 1882
Beatrix Matther 1396 Assize Rolls: Wiltshire
Margaret Mather 1524 Subsidy Rolls: Suffolk
Thomas Mathar 1621 Subsidy Rolls: Yorkshire

Old English: Maedere 'mower, reaper'

"Occupational surnames originally denoted the actual occupation followed by the individual. At what time they became hereditary is a difficult problem."

Reaney, Percy H. 1880-1968. 'A Dictionary of English Surnames'. Oxford University Press. Great Britain. 1997. Pg. xli, 302. Used by permission of Oxford University Press.

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MATHERS: Mathers is now the usual form of this name in Ulster, though it originated in Yorkshire, England as Mather, and that is the form in which it first appeared in Ireland. Mather is the more numerous in the other provinces and it is on record in Dublin since the first half of the seventeenth century. By the end of that century it was well established in Co. Armaugh. Mathers has to some extent been changed to Mathews in Co. Down. The obsolete English word mather, from which the surname is derived, means mower. Reprinted with permission from IAP.

The Surnames of Ireland by Edward MacLysaght, page 210, published by Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1980.

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