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Re: REDVERS
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This is a corruption of the Latin "Ripariis", which as "de Ripariis", was an 11th century Norman surname meaning "of the river". The name was borne by the first Earl of Devon, some of whose descendants transformed it into "de Redvers". (Others kept the original form for several hundred years.) A modern English equivalent of Redvers might be "Rivers".- Da.
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