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The dover Surname

dover Name Meaning and History

  1. 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’).
  2. 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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Distribution of dover Families in the US in 1920
Number of dover families
 41-80
 14-40		 1-13
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Ann Dover nungessersuzanne 0
Elizabeth Dover information 1peaches1 0
DOVER Ramona married 2 Feb 1947 t42FlowerM_DenCoTX 0
Looking for more infomation on Thomas Jefferson Dover MichaelParker3358 13
Donkin/Crutwell Lindonquin 2
George William Fletcher Dover rdiebel_1 0
Mary Dover daughter of David and Sarah Dover LDJINTHEWOODS 6
Dover family from Cumberland UK Kattrina Dover 4
Dover/Carpenter rdiebel_1 0
Mrs. Alma Pennington Dover Sharon Dover Romanek 4
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