Last name: CHILVERS
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CHILVERS : This last name is indexed 16,488 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CHILVERS : 1: English (Norfolk and Suffolk): perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Chelferth (Old English Cēolfrith Cēolferth from cēol ‘ship’ + frith ‘peace’).2: Alternatively perhaps a variant of Irish and English Chivers.
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