Cave Family History
Cave Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and northern French: nickname for a
bald man, from Anglo-Norman French cauf ‘bald’. Compare
Chaffee. adm; pwh.English: habitational name from a place in East Yorkshire
called Cave, apparently from a river name derived from Old English
caf ‘swift’.French: metonymic occupational name for
someone employed in or in charge of the wine cellars of a great house,
from Old French cave ‘cave’, ‘cellar’ (Latin cavea, a
derivative of cavus ‘hollow’).French, possibly also
English: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a cave,
from the same word as in 3 in an older sense.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cave
Name Distribution of Cave Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cave families
 268 - 533  90 - 267 |
 1 - 89  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cave families
|
9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cave census records
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Cave Family Origin
Cave Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cave Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Cave families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Cave Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cave census records
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Military Service by Cave
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