Chaves Family History
- Chaves Name Meaning
- Portuguese: habitational name from a place in the province of Tras-os-Montes named Chaves, from Latin (aquis) Flaviis, ‘(at the) waters of Flavius’. The place was the site of sulfurous springs with supposedly health-giving properties, around which a settlement was founded in the 1st century ad by the Emperor Vespasian. Portuguese and Galician: habitational name from any of numerous places called Chaves, generally from the plural of chave ‘key’, from Latin clavis. Variant of Irish and English Chivers. Compare Chavers.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 643,934 Historical Documents with Chaves on Ancestry
- 530,493 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 40,707 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,333 Military Records
- 9,129 Immigration Records
- 59,272 Member Trees
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Number of Chaves families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Chaves families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Chaves census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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