Cave One Name Study

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This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the surname Cave and ALL its variants. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect--and those that don't. Please contact the project leader, add categories to your profiles, add your questions to the bulletin board, add details of your name research, etc.

To add your ancestor to this study, include the following category to the Biography section of his or her profile:

[[Category: Cave_Name_Study ]]

This profile is part of the Cave Name Study.

Cave Name Meaning

English (of Norman origin) and northern French: nickname for a bald man, from Anglo-Norman French cauf ‘bald’. Compare Chaffee. adm; pwh.English: habitational name from a place in East Yorkshire called Cave, apparently from a river name derived from Old English caf ‘swift’.French: metonymic occupational name for someone employed in or in charge of the wine cellars of a great house, from Old French cave ‘cave’, ‘cellar’ (Latin cavea, a derivative of cavus ‘hollow’).French, possibly also English: topographic name for someone who lived in or near a cave, from the same word as in 3 in an older sense. ^[1]

Rankings for CAVE

United States ranked 3,331 out of 88,799 ^[2]

Apparent Brick Walls

If you recognize any of these "brick walls" and can help, please bust through the brick wall:

• Benjamin Cave: Born 1784 in Camden, Kershaw, South Carolina, United States
• Elizabeth Harding formerly Cave: Born 1785 in Surry, North Carolina, USA
• Thomas Cave: Born 1812 in Ohio USA
• Newland Addison Cave: Born March 1, 1845 in Ozark,Christian Co.,Mo

Earliest Known Caves

• Thomas Cave Born about 1586 [uncertain] in Croft Castle, Hertfordshire, England

Cave in Australia

• William Richard Cave: Born about 1851 in Clarence River, NEw South Wales

Cave in Ireland

• Henry Charles Cave: Born about 1877 in Cork, Ireland

Cave in New Zealand

• Una Mary Proude formerly Cave: Born about 1877 probably in New Zealand
• Arthur Norman Cave: Born about 1869, probably in New Zealand
• Felicia Helen Norman Cave: Born about 1909 in New Zealand
• Kenneth Holmes Cave: Born about 1874 probably in New Zealand

Sources

1. ↑ Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
2. ↑ Behind the Name: Cave Retrieved 30 Jun 2015