It comes from the French word 'écuyer', which means horseman or someone
who looks after horses. In the Middle Ages it had a more specific
meaning of a young man preparing to become a knight. It has evolved to
become the title or way of addressing the Lord of the Manor in the
English feudal system and is also used as a way of addressing some one
supposedly important - a pub landlord might well use it to welcome a
customer.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Marilyn Schwartz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:familyismytreasure@comcast.net">familyismytreasure@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="blue" face="Palatino Linotype"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; color: blue;">I have a “Squire
Crume” in my family tree, born 1798 in Kentucky.
I believe the family was of Scottish heritage, or Scots-Irish. I missed
the first part of this discussion, so someone may have already mentioned that
Daniel Boone’s father was named Squire Boone (and I may be wrong, but I
believe they were Scots-Irish). I just did a quick search on “WorldConnect”
entering ONLY “Squire” as the given name (no surname entered), and
I got about 50,000 hits. Looking quickly at them, some are surnames or
titles. But, many have the given name “Squire.”</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
<a href="mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" target="_blank">or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" target="_blank">or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Barbara Wulf<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, September 25, 2010
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [or-roots] Why the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">You might want to check the family tree for a sir name of
Squire. Often the strange first names were a maiden name from somewhere in the
family.</span></font></p>
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given name squire</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I think the "delusions
of grandeur" answer is probably closest; I don't know exactly
what got into our ancestors with regards to given name, perhaps in response
to the confusion of twenty generations of "John son of John
son of John" they decided to be original in
a fairly outrageous way. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In today's world Manlove is kind of
an unfortunate choice but I have a family in my file where that was
one of the better ones, Patience was another one that works for me, but most
of the family must have cringed every time they were asked for their given
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I was attempting to find the file and seem to have
locked up FTM so am going to post this without the listing of names I found
offensive, but I am sure most of you who have traced any line back to the
17th century know the types of names I mean.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">PS Wiki and other online info sites don't address
the issue of Squire used as a given name at all, 20,001 baby names only
refers to the age of chivalry meaning and it's metamorphosis into
aide-de-campe. My dictionary doesn't even list it.</span></font></p>
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