James Biggar "Jerry" Weir (21 October 1851 – 22 December 1887)James Biggar Weir
Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Via Ancestry. Retrieved 13 August 2022 was a Scottish

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, who played for Queen's Park and

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. Weir scored two goals in four appearances for Scotland. He also won the Scottish Cup three times with Queen's Park. A joiner to trade, he emigrated to Australia, and died of typhoid fever while working on a railway construction project.

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