Cleve Family History
Cleve Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the numerous minor
places, for example in Devon, Gloucestershire, and Oxfordshire, named
Cleeve or Cleve ‘(place) at the cliff’, from the dative case
clife of Old English clif ‘slope’, ‘cliff’. Compare
Cliff.Americanized spelling of Kleve.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cleve
Name Distribution of Cleve Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cleve families
 8 - 13  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cleve families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cleve families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cleve census records
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Cleve Family Origin
Cleve Immigration Information
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You can find out when most of the Cleve families immigrated
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Cleve
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Cleve Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Cleve census records
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Cleve Civil War Service Records
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| Thread | Author | Replies | |
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| CLEVE Reginald D - Vietnam Wall section 4W |  | t42Vietnam_ParkerCoTX | 0 |
| jeanne de cleve | | hapco_41240 | 1 |
| Cleve/Cleves | | 0 | |
| CLEVE/CLEAVES/CLIVE/CLIVES | | 0 |
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