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SIER Family History

There are two possible meanings of this interesting name of medieval French origin, the first being that it is a nickname surname for a peasant who gave himself airs and graces, or an occupational name for someone in the service of a great lord. The derivation is from the Old French "sor" or "sieur", sire or sir. The following are examples after the first recording (see below) Matheus le Sire (1201, Curia Rolls of Nottingham), Ralph le Seyr (1296, Subsidy Rolls of Sussex), Walter Surr (1327, Subsidy Rolls of Cambridgeshire), and in the modern idiom the variants include Sire, Sier, Sirr, Surr, Syer, and Syers.