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The reeves Surname

reeves Name Meaning and History

  1. patronymic from Reeve.
  2. topographic name for someone who lived on the margin of a wood, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter eves ‘at the edge’ (Old English æt þære efese).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of reeves Families in the US in 1920
Number of reeves families
 359-716
 120-358		 1-119
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 1745 - Messages: 3687
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Dora Reeves (Croft) CharlottJones 2
Father of Reeves Children born in San Francisco ColleenMoorhead 0
Reeves Middx England ValMac153 0
Reeves Middx England ValMac153 0
reeves family Lancashire England bmungo1 0
Peter b 1824 VA & Julia (FORD) REEVES>TN, MO, AR MargeDavis71 2
Reeves, Moses Vanburen tgrossnickle 7
Reeves from Jefferson County, Al. ericandkhaki 0
Phoebe Anne Reeve lizgibbs1 0
Grandparents & family GeorgeFReeves 1
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