Last name: FAIRWEATHER
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FAIRWEATHER : This last name is indexed 26,271 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FAIRWEATHER : English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English fair(e) ‘fair beautiful’ + weder wether ‘weather’ for a person with a cheerful disposition. Compare Merryweather. There is a legend that a Scottish family of Highland origin assumed this name in punning allusion to Job 37:22 ‘Fair weather cometh out of the north’. At the present time the surname is most frequent in East Anglia.
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