Dover Family History
Dover Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the port of Dover in Kent,
named from the river on which it stands, a Celtic name meaning ‘the
waters’ (from the word which became modern Welsh dwfr ‘water’).North German: habitational name from Doveren in the
Rhineland, of uncertain etymology; the origin is possibly Celtic and
so related ultimately to 1, or a variant of Dove 4.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Dover
Name Distribution of Dover Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dover families
 116 - 230  39 - 115 |
 1 - 38  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dover families
|
7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dover census records
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Dover Family Origin
Dover Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Dover Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Dover Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Dover census records
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Military Service by Dover
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