When Eaves was born in 1663, her father, William Jonathan Eaves, was 23 and her mother, Flora Elizabeth Graves, was 21. She married Thomas Harris about 1680.
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topographic name or habitational name from Middle English atte evese (Old English efes ‘edge’), for someone who lived ‘at the edge’ (i.e. at the border or edge of a wood or hill) or at a place so named, particularly Eaves, in Chorley (Lancashire). Compare Reeves .
variant of Eve , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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