On 19/08/2013 11:39, roy.stockdill@btinternet.com wrote: > Redmonds holds the theory, to which I subscribe, that you can only ever truly > define a surname if you can trace it back to the very first holder in the > records - not possible, of course, for many if not most names. Occupational and patronomic names spring to mind there but what about a name like REAVIS/REVIS? It sounds like it might be from the Border Reivers. -- Connie http://oursalmons.wordpress.com/