Son of Philander A Colver & Prusha A. Marsh Hewitt. Husband of Mary A Bowker
It is historically inaccurate to standardise surnames and first names. We may be creating false persons.
The suname Colver-Culver has been spelled various ways...such as Cover, Collver, Coluer, Culver, Culliver, Colvers, Colvar, Colvir, Colvur, Culvir, Calver, Kolver etc.
The original spelling (from Edward) was Colver, although other people wrote as Culver in official documents. Since then, Culver has appeared to dominate.
Historically varied spellings were the case, principally because people tended to spell what they understood they heard. Particularly during the Middle ages, spelling was never consistent. It reflected the mood of the scribe who wrote the document. In the early history of the North American Colonies and the US, people were often ill educated and would often guess, spelling the same word differently depending on their level education. It amounted to what he believed he heard.
Only comparatively recently (mid-century) have we have become obsessed with standarising surnames since we are more concerned with the rules of record-linkage used in in copiling electronic data.
The Colver family is readily traced in the English counties of Dorset, Hereford, Oxford, Suffolk, Leicester , and Middlesex as well as in various part s of Ireland, and were, for the most part, of the landed gentry and yeomanry of Great Britain. The founder of the Collver-Culver family in America was the Puritan, Edward Culver, who came to America from Southeastern England in 1635, and first settled in Massachusetts.
Sources:
1. Frederick Lathrop Colver, Colver - Culver Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colver of Boston, Dedham & Roxbury, Massachusetts, & New London & Mystic, Connecticut, 1635-1909, pub. by 1910.
2. Valerie Dyer Giorgi , Colver-Culver Family Genealogy: As Descended from Edward Colver of Groton Connecticut to the Thirteen Generations in America
Publication: Valerie Dyer Giorgi, Santa Maria, California, 1984
It is historically inaccurate to standardise surnames and first names. We may be creating false persons.
The suname Colver-Culver has been spelled various ways...such as Cover, Collver, Coluer, Culver, Culliver, Colvers, Colvar, Colvir, Colvur, Culvir, Calver, Kolver etc.
The original spelling (from Edward) was Colver, although other people wrote as Culver in official documents. Since then, Culver has appeared to dominate.
Historically varied spellings were the case, principally because people tended to spell what they understood they heard. Particularly during the Middle ages, spelling was never consistent. It reflected the mood of the scribe who wrote the document. In the early history of the North American Colonies and the US, people were often ill educated and would often guess, spelling the same word differently depending on their level education. It amounted to what he believed he heard.
Only comparatively recently (mid-century) have we have become obsessed with standarising surnames since we are more concerned with the rules of record-linkage used in in copiling electronic data.
The Colver family is readily traced in the English counties of Dorset, Hereford, Oxford, Suffolk, Leicester , and Middlesex as well as in various part s of Ireland, and were, for the most part, of the landed gentry and yeomanry of Great Britain. The founder of the Collver-Culver family in America was the Puritan, Edward Culver, who came to America from Southeastern England in 1635, and first settled in Massachusetts.
Sources:
1. Frederick Lathrop Colver, Colver - Culver Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colver of Boston, Dedham & Roxbury, Massachusetts, & New London & Mystic, Connecticut, 1635-1909, pub. by 1910.
2. Valerie Dyer Giorgi , Colver-Culver Family Genealogy: As Descended from Edward Colver of Groton Connecticut to the Thirteen Generations in America
Publication: Valerie Dyer Giorgi, Santa Maria, California, 1984
Son of Philander A Colver & Prusha A. Marsh Hewitt. Husband of Mary A Bowker
It is historically inaccurate to standardise surnames and first names. We may be creating false persons.
The suname Colver-Culver has been spelled various ways...such as Cover, Collver, Coluer, Culver, Culliver, Colvers, Colvar, Colvir, Colvur, Culvir, Calver, Kolver etc.
The original spelling (from Edward) was Colver, although other people wrote as Culver in official documents. Since then, Culver has appeared to dominate.
Historically varied spellings were the case, principally because people tended to spell what they understood they heard. Particularly during the Middle ages, spelling was never consistent. It reflected the mood of the scribe who wrote the document. In the early history of the North American Colonies and the US, people were often ill educated and would often guess, spelling the same word differently depending on their level education. It amounted to what he believed he heard.
Only comparatively recently (mid-century) have we have become obsessed with standarising surnames since we are more concerned with the rules of record-linkage used in in copiling electronic data.
The Colver family is readily traced in the English counties of Dorset, Hereford, Oxford, Suffolk, Leicester , and Middlesex as well as in various part s of Ireland, and were, for the most part, of the landed gentry and yeomanry of Great Britain. The founder of the Collver-Culver family in America was the Puritan, Edward Culver, who came to America from Southeastern England in 1635, and first settled in Massachusetts.
Sources:
1. Frederick Lathrop Colver, Colver - Culver Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colver of Boston, Dedham & Roxbury, Massachusetts, & New London & Mystic, Connecticut, 1635-1909, pub. by 1910.
2. Valerie Dyer Giorgi , Colver-Culver Family Genealogy: As Descended from Edward Colver of Groton Connecticut to the Thirteen Generations in America
Publication: Valerie Dyer Giorgi, Santa Maria, California, 1984
It is historically inaccurate to standardise surnames and first names. We may be creating false persons.
The suname Colver-Culver has been spelled various ways...such as Cover, Collver, Coluer, Culver, Culliver, Colvers, Colvar, Colvir, Colvur, Culvir, Calver, Kolver etc.
The original spelling (from Edward) was Colver, although other people wrote as Culver in official documents. Since then, Culver has appeared to dominate.
Historically varied spellings were the case, principally because people tended to spell what they understood they heard. Particularly during the Middle ages, spelling was never consistent. It reflected the mood of the scribe who wrote the document. In the early history of the North American Colonies and the US, people were often ill educated and would often guess, spelling the same word differently depending on their level education. It amounted to what he believed he heard.
Only comparatively recently (mid-century) have we have become obsessed with standarising surnames since we are more concerned with the rules of record-linkage used in in copiling electronic data.
The Colver family is readily traced in the English counties of Dorset, Hereford, Oxford, Suffolk, Leicester , and Middlesex as well as in various part s of Ireland, and were, for the most part, of the landed gentry and yeomanry of Great Britain. The founder of the Collver-Culver family in America was the Puritan, Edward Culver, who came to America from Southeastern England in 1635, and first settled in Massachusetts.
Sources:
1. Frederick Lathrop Colver, Colver - Culver Genealogy, Descendants of Edward Colver of Boston, Dedham & Roxbury, Massachusetts, & New London & Mystic, Connecticut, 1635-1909, pub. by 1910.
2. Valerie Dyer Giorgi , Colver-Culver Family Genealogy: As Descended from Edward Colver of Groton Connecticut to the Thirteen Generations in America
Publication: Valerie Dyer Giorgi, Santa Maria, California, 1984
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