Effer is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, Scotland. It is 5 characters long in length.
Effer is the form of the Eure. See Ure - 1. A Yorkshire river. 2. Eur occurs as a personal name in Domesday; and an early Scandinavian gave his name to Ureby, or Ewerby, in Lincolnshire. 3. The baronial family of Eure took their name, in the XIII century, from the lordship of Eure or Evre, in Buckinghamshire.
A gentleman of this name having deserted a lady to whom he had been affianced, Douglas Jerrold remarked, that he could not have thought that Ure would have proved a base un.
Effer is the variant form of MacIver. The son of Ivar or Iver meaning "archer".
The lastname is variant of the Evors. Probably the same as Mac Ivor, though Ferguson derives them from the Anglo-Saxon efor or efyr, a boar.
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Immigrants to US
From Germany
Farmer H. Effer from Germany aboard the W A Scholten from Rotterdam. He is registered to be 22 years old when he arrived in USA on October 21, 1887. Laborer Antoni J. Effer, Franz Effer, aged 34, Laborer Ant. Effer, Anna Effer (23) Housekeeper, are other Effer that migrated to US from Liverpool & Queenstown, Hamburg & Havre and Antwerp.
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