Rivers Family History
Rivers Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of
various places in northern France called Rivières, from the plural
form of Old French rivière ‘river’ (originally meaning
‘riverbank’, from Latin riparia). The absence of English forms
without the final -s makes it unlikely that it is ever from the
borrowed Middle English vocabulary word river, but the French
and other Romance cognates do normally have this sense.Common Americanized form of French Larivière.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
431,659
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Rivers
Name Distribution of Rivers Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rivers families
 255 - 507  86 - 254 |
 1 - 85  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rivers families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rivers census records
You can see how Rivers families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
View all Rivers census records
>
Rivers Family Origin
Rivers Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Rivers emigration records
You can find out when most of the Rivers families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
View all Rivers emigration records >
from the New York Passenger Lists
Rivers Emigration Information (AU)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Rivers emigration records
You can find out when most of the Rivers families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
View all Rivers emigration records >
from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Rivers Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Rivers census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Rivers ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
View all Rivers census records >
Military Service by Rivers
Message Board about Rivers
441 Threads, 105
Messages
Browse message boards to get helpful hints from other people researching the name
Rivers.
Threads: 441 - Messages: 105
Start a FREE Rivers family tree
Starting a family tree at Ancestry is not only the easiest way to organise, preserve
and share your family history, it's also a direct link to missing information about
your roots.
About Ancestry.co.uk
The world's largest family history resource
- Explore over 7 billion genealogical records
- Search 26 million family trees
- Create your FREE family tree
- Follow leaf Hints to follow more ancestors
×