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I would like to know the origins of my christian name if possible.I believe it originated in about the year 700ad.The name may not have started out as Beverley.
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A dry dam or levy. It is a manmade place which is used as a bridge or a boundry between fields,pastures, and different types of crops or herds of animals. It may or may not contain water.
In South Texas we call them levies, stock ponds and cisterns. They catch rain water in summer drought and divert flash floods of nearby streams and rivers and hold ground seepage from underground unseen ssprings in watery sections.
I wouldn't think it would be different in other places of the world.
I did a name study for a friend of mine whose name is Beverly and basically found that name to mean : finished or chisled from the leftovers or dregs. Considered good or bad only the bearer of that name knows, my friend was not sure how to take it, but lived the same.
In South Texas we call them levies, stock ponds and cisterns. They catch rain water in summer drought and divert flash floods of nearby streams and rivers and hold ground seepage from underground unseen ssprings in watery sections.
I wouldn't think it would be different in other places of the world.
I did a name study for a friend of mine whose name is Beverly and basically found that name to mean : finished or chisled from the leftovers or dregs. Considered good or bad only the bearer of that name knows, my friend was not sure how to take it, but lived the same.
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Just click on the link in your own post, or click here: Beverley.
I can give you a little information that is not in the database, however it mostly amounts to negations of what is in your post.
The name Beverley is not Celtic, in any way, shape or form. It is a typical Old English *place* name, containing two word parts - bever, meaning 'beaver', and ley, which according to BtN stands for 'stream', although I would disagree and say that it is from legh meaning 'meadow' (as in Ashley, 'ash meadow'). The original Beverley will have been a place where there was a stream and/or meadow inhabited by beavers.
A date from 700 AD is highly unlikely. As it is an Old English name, it will have arisen as a place name somewhere between the 5th and 12th centuries AD. I can find no record of it being used as a personal name (male or female) up to the 17th century, so it is unlikely to have been used as a personal name prior to 1700. There is a short gap in my searchable resources from 1700 onwards, but I have found plenty of references to children named Beverley in the 1800s, so it was clearly established as a personal first name at that point. I haven't been able to turn up any data on Beverley as a surname, but I am sure it was used as a surname before it was used as a first name.
For more information on the origins of Beverley, check here: http://www.answers.com/beverley
♦ Chrisell ♦
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
I can give you a little information that is not in the database, however it mostly amounts to negations of what is in your post.
The name Beverley is not Celtic, in any way, shape or form. It is a typical Old English *place* name, containing two word parts - bever, meaning 'beaver', and ley, which according to BtN stands for 'stream', although I would disagree and say that it is from legh meaning 'meadow' (as in Ashley, 'ash meadow'). The original Beverley will have been a place where there was a stream and/or meadow inhabited by beavers.
A date from 700 AD is highly unlikely. As it is an Old English name, it will have arisen as a place name somewhere between the 5th and 12th centuries AD. I can find no record of it being used as a personal name (male or female) up to the 17th century, so it is unlikely to have been used as a personal name prior to 1700. There is a short gap in my searchable resources from 1700 onwards, but I have found plenty of references to children named Beverley in the 1800s, so it was clearly established as a personal first name at that point. I haven't been able to turn up any data on Beverley as a surname, but I am sure it was used as a surname before it was used as a first name.
For more information on the origins of Beverley, check here: http://www.answers.com/beverley
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
This message was edited 7/21/2005, 6:21 AM
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