Show ContentsSelvester History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Early Origins of the Selvester family

The surname Selvester was first found in Essex, but the earliest record of the name was Sylvester, a medieval Bishop of Worcester (1216-1218.)

Early History of the Selvester family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Selvester research. Another 102 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1086, 1296, 1563, 1618, 1636, 1652, 1708 and 1722 are included under the topic Early Selvester History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Selvester Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Silvester, Sylvester, Silvestre and others.

Early Notables of the Selvester family

Daniel Silvester, Advocate; Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618), an English poet; and John Silvester (1652-1722) an English blacksmith at the Tower of London who held the Lordship of Birthwaite and Kexborough, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire; he...
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Migration of the Selvester family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Phillip Silvester who settled in Virginia in 1642; along with Abraham; Grace Silvester settled in Barbados with her husband and their servants in 1679.


Contemporary Notables of the name Selvester (post 1700) +

  • Captain Thomas Selvester, British Army officer who interrogated Heinrich Himmler in May 1945 before he took his own life by a hidden potassium cyanide pill
  • Carole Selvester, American actress, known for The Naked City (1948)
  • Sean Selvester, American actor, known for Hunderby (2012)


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