Revere Family History
Revere Name Meaning
French: variant of Rivière, Rivoire, or
Rivier, topographic name for someone living on the banks of a
river, French rivier ‘bank’, or habitational name from any of
the many places in France named with this word.English: nickname from Middle English revere ‘reiver’,
‘robber’.English: topographic name for someone who lived on the
brow of a hill, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase
atter evere ‘at the brow or edge’ (from Old English
yfer, efer ‘edge’) or a habitational name from a place
named with this phrase, as for example River in West Sussex or Rivar
in Wiltshire.Jewish (from Italy): habitational name
from a place in Mantua named Revere.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Revere
Name Distribution of Revere Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Revere families
 4 - 5  2 - 3 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Revere Family Origin
Revere Emigration Information (US)
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Revere Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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