This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chavours/Chavous/Bridgewater Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Yh.2ADE/1684.1 Message Board Post: I have a number of Chavours/Chavous' in my family found in Illinois. I have a family bible that lists births back to 1803 of Thomas and Mahlon Chavours and others. Thomas and Mahlon were from NC and somehow ended up in northern Illinois and then in Springfield and Tuscola, Illinois. Thomas also lived in Monmouth, El Paso, Bloomington and finally in Tuscola, Illinois.