Fryers Family History
Fryers Name Meaning
from Middle English atte freres for someone who lived or worked probably as a servant ‘at the friars’ (Old French Middle English frere ‘brother member of one of the religious mendicant orders’). Atte and of are often rendered by medieval clerks as Latin ad or Anglo-Norman French del. Compare Nunns and Parsons .a post-medieval variant of Fryer with excrescent -s.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016