Ware Family History

English:

topographic name for someone who lived by or looked after a dam or weir on a river (from Old English wær, wer, Middle English war(e), warre, wer(e), werre ‘weir’), or a habitational name from a place called with this word, such as Weare (Somerset), Weare Giffard (Devon), or Ware (Hertfordshire).

topographic name for someone who lived by a horse pond or fish pond, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English wayour, which became early modern English ware, wear.

nickname for a cautious person, from Middle English war(e) ‘wary, prudent’, also ‘wise, skilful, cunnning’ (Old English (ge)wær).

(of Norman origin): variant of Warr .

(of Flemish origin): nickname from Flemish De Weer, from Middle Dutch we(d)er ‘wether, ram’.

History: Robert Ware came to Dedham, MA, from England in or before 1642. Henry Ware (1764–1845), born in Sherborn, MA, was a Unitarian clergyman and theologian and father of the physician John Ware (born 1795) and two clergymen, Henry (born 1794) and William (born 1797).