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Help[Surname] Shover
Hey, I posted a while ago about some surnames I was looking for the etymology for. I got this response
"Shover is explained on the same website (www.ancestry.com) as being an American version of the Dutch name De Schouwer, an inspector of weights and measures."
I was wondering if there was some other place I could find information on this name, because my family wasn't Dutch, they were French. I'm not sure if there would be a different meaning for my name. My family says that all they know is that that part of my family were French-Canadians who moved to the U.S. after marriage.
"Shover is explained on the same website (www.ancestry.com) as being an American version of the Dutch name De Schouwer, an inspector of weights and measures."
I was wondering if there was some other place I could find information on this name, because my family wasn't Dutch, they were French. I'm not sure if there would be a different meaning for my name. My family says that all they know is that that part of my family were French-Canadians who moved to the U.S. after marriage.
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In your case, Shover is an alteration of French Chauvin. Just Google the two names together and you'll see all kinds of references to this. You'll find the origin of Chauvin at http://www.ancestry.com/facts/chauvin-name-meaning.ashx. In other cases, Shover is an alteration of German Schober as you can see at http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?rank=0&xcb=x&tips=0&father=schober&given=&surname=shover&mother=&stype=Exact&spouse=&byear=&brange=&bplace=&myear=&mrange=&mplace=&dyear=&drange=&dplace=&language=en&op=search&db=&ti=0&ti.si=0&gl=&gss=mp-awt&gst=&so=3. No one named De Schouwer is recorded as having immigrated to North America.
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