Wiedmeyer Family History
Wiedmeyer Name Meaning
North German: distinguishing name for a tenant farmer (see Meyer ) who lived near a stand of willows from Middle Low German wide ‘willow’. South German: variant of Widmaier a status name for a tenant farmer who held a farm that had been endowed to a prebendary of church-owned property.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022