SEARS

(origin: Cor. Br.) From sair, a carpenter or sawyer; Welsh, saer; Gaelic, saor, a carpenter.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

SEARS. 1. See Sayer. 2. Serez, a. place in the arrondissement of Evreux, in Normandy. 3. " The name — which has been written Sare, Sayer, Sayers — first occurs in the reign of Edmund Ironside, A.D., 1016, and, a few centuries after, the family are found possessed of landed estates in the county of Essex, some of which remained in the name as late as the year 1770." Disou.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.