Clavery Family Name and Heraldry

Your Clavery ancestor may well appear as Chaves in earlier records. Read literally, Clavery points to “From Chaves”.

The same family of names includes Chave. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. Before spelling was fixed, Chaves was also written Clavery.

Names that sound alike, such as Culver, are easily confused in old records.

Arms linked to Chaves and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Clavery report, with a museum-style coat of arms.