Cleaver Family History
- Cleaver Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English clevere ‘one who cleaves’ (a derivative of Old English cleofan ‘to split’), hence an occupational name for someone who split wood into planks using a wedge rather than a saw, or possibly for a butcher. English: topographic name from Middle English cleve ‘bank’, ‘slope’ (from the dative of Old English clif) + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant. Americanized spelling of German Kliewer or Klüver (see Kluver).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 386,320 Historical Documents with Cleaver on Ancestry
- 136,209 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 88,045 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,649 Military Records
- 6,455 Immigration Records
- 145,962 Member Trees
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Number of Cleaver families
 366 - 729  123 - 365 |
 1 - 122  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cleaver families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cleaver census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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