Cheever Family History
Cheever Name Meaning
English: from Anglo-Norman French chivere, chevre
‘goat’ (Latin capra ‘nanny goat’), applied as a nickname for an
unpredictable or temperamental person, or a metonymic occupational
name for a goatherd.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cheever
Name Distribution of Cheever Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cheever families
 6 - 10  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cheever families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cheever census records
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Cheever Family Origin
Cheever Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cheever Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cheever census records
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Military Service by Cheever
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