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Facts and Events
References
- Birth, Marriage & Death dates are from the files of Warner Sivyer, grandson of William Sivyer, Sr. He also wrote a biography about his father William, which contains much information about the grandfather as well.
- The following was written by Louise Sivyer (great-grand-daughter of William Sivyer, Sr.) to her cousin Earl Beese, genealogist, in November, 1992: William Sivyer Sr. and a brother (name not known by me), and their wives along with infant George, born 3/28/1830, were the first generation of Sivyers to come from England to the U.S. They settled first in Chicago, but decided the air there was unhealthy and moved to Milwaukee where all the rest of their children were born. The youngest son of Wm. Sivyer and Lucy Durrant Sivyer, Leonard D. Sivyer (b. 2/17/1853), went back to England to trace the family history. He discovered that the original name was spelled Sevier, but that the clan had been in England for many generations. Apparently the earliest of the family were Normans and one of them decided to Anglicize the name which then became Sivyer. Leonard found gravestones and other evidence of the family's existence in England a long way back. Unfortunately, my father didn't have a copy of his research, but he had heard about it both from his father and also from his uncle Leonard, and I heard it from my father, Warner Sivyer.
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