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cove Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from a place named Cove, examples of which are found in Devon, Hampshire, and Suffolk, from Old English cofa ‘cove’, ‘bay’, ‘inlet’, also ‘shelter’, ‘hut’, or a topographic name with the same meaning.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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cove Family Facts

Distribution of cove Families in the US in 1920
Number of cove families
 10-17
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 17 - Messages: 61
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Cove.London/Middlesex. Diane Cove. 5
William &Elizabeth Cove strudwick1 8
Cove of Newfoundland efcantrell 2
NATHANIEL COVE married MARY ELIZABETH BOSS (mid-1800's in Canada) lilmammawashere 1
COVE - RIFENBARK lilmammawashere 1
Eli Cove - shoemaker MargaretJordan602 3
William Cove JamesT_Burrows 2
geneology sean 3
Cove - Cyril Nicki Megainey (nee Cove) 2
Sarah Cov? Anna 1
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