When Robert Chivers was born about 1810, in Wilkes, Georgia, United States, his father, Thomas Holley Chivers, was 19 and his mother, Frances G. Pierson, was 30.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Cheever .
History: This Norman name has been in southeast Leinster, Ireland, since the 12th century. Thomas Chivers (c. 1627–64) bought land in Surry County, VA, in 1659.
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