First found in Devon. The first known ancestor of the name was Roger de Chievre and Petronilla living circa 1000 A.D. in a town in the south of Belgium called by that name. Roger's sons William Chievre and his brother Ralf de la Pommeraie, were companions of William the Conqueror in the invasion of England in1066 and were given large estates in Devon. A William Cheure, Capra was listed in the Domesday Book as holding land in both Devon and Wiltshire

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Ezekiel Cheevers, who came to Boston in 1637; Wm. Chevers, who settled in Virginia in 1695; Richard Cheevers, an emigrant in bondage sent to Barbados or Jamaica in 1696.

Motto Translated: In God is my faith.

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