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Rivers: Origin, Geographical Distribution
(Celtic and Gaelic.) Local. The name of a parish in Fife, Scotland, on the northern shore of the Frith of Forth, whence the possessor took his surname; from Aber, marshy ground, a place where two or more streams meet; and cruvme or crombie, a bend or crook. Aber, in the Celtic and Gaelic, and also in the Cornish British, signifies the confluence of two or more streams, or the mouth of a river, where it flows into the sea; hence it is often applied to marshy ground, generally near the confluence of two rivers. It also signifies, sometimes, a gulf or whirlpool.
Rivers Surname Origin
Rivers: Place of Origin :  London (United Kingdom) |  Wiltshire (United Kingdom) |  Hampshire (United Kingdom) |  Oxfordshire (United Kingdom) |  Essex (United Kingdom) |  Kent (United Kingdom)
Rivers: Online Family Trees
de RIVERS Angleterre (England, United Kingdom) 1185 - 1185
de RIVERS Salisbury (Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom) 1185 - 1185
RIVERS Dinton (Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom) 1835 - 1835
RIVERS Echilhampton (Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom) 1795 - 1795
RIVERS Woodborough (Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom) 1761 - 1769
RIVERS London (London, England, United Kingdom) 2006 - 2006
de RIVERS Breamore England (Hampshire, England, United Kingdom) 1236 - 1236
RIVERS St. Dusnstan'S-In-The-West (London, England, United Kingdom) 1590 - 1590
RIVERS Chiddingstone (Kent, England, United Kingdom) 1535 - 1535
RIVERS England (England, United Kingdom) 1450 - 1450

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Rivers: GeneaNet Members
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Rivers: Famous Genealogies
 The surname Rivers is related to the following famous family trees :
        CASH Johnny born CASH J. R. (1932 - 2003)
Rivers: Books that contain this surname
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RIVERSA genealogic and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire g by Bernard Burke,...
Author: John Bernard Burke - Published in 1860
... aud co-heir of Richard Wydvile, Earl Rivers, and Jacqueline, his wife, widow of John Plantagenet, -Duke of Bedford, and was ...		 RIVERSA genealogic and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire g by Bernard Burke,...
Author: John Bernard Burke - Published in 1860
... and co-heir of Thomas D'Arcy, Earl Rivers, Lord D'Arcy of Chiche, by Mary, dau. and co-heir of Sir Thomas Kitson, ...
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