In a message dated 11/9/2000 7:11:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > his is important for the location of the records I search in England. As I > said before there are no REAVIS names in the north of England but some in > the South West along with the names RIVES, RYVES and RIVERS. Likewise > REVIS/RIVIS are nearly all in the North with a pocket in the South East. It > just helps me decide where to search. > > It does help to know he had a sister Frances. Thank you that will be very > useful. > Frances has not been DOCUMENTED AS SISTER. Rivis Revis sp Virginia 1721-1745 Reaves Reavis sp North Carolina 1745/7-1770 Wm Ryves..to Jamestown ca1645 frm Oxford family was in shipping business...legally changed his name to RIVES frm RYVES..Eng parliament Ryves/Rives/Reeves may or may not be same family. Childs pub his research on this family back to Robert Ryves; Blandford Forum Randleston & Dorset Court. Does not seem to connect to our family however, they are frequently in same areas. He however, does not rule it out, because of the many variations of the name, our family researchers, did rule it out. Reeves frm Eng toVa ca11660...frequently find under Reaves or Rieves. Only clue we have to our family is the rec as previoulsy stated area of London, where the name is spelled different ways even back then. Assoc families only clue. Our Edward could have been born early as 1660, he had two families, and unfortunately I don't think, could be wrong; we have definitive documented dob for any of them, but believed to have been born starting ca11710-15. Hope someone else can come up with more clues for you to help us research our family in England. *Barb