Surname Etymology and Meaning of BEVERLY
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| (origin: Local) From the borough of Beverly in Yorkshire, England; from Belvoir, a beautiful prospect, and ley, a place or field. Some say "the lake of beavers," from Beverlac, and so called from the beavers which abounded in the river Hull, near by. Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857). |
