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English : unexplained.South German : topographic name for someone who lived at the upper end of a village on a hill, from Middle High German ober, obar ‘above’. In other cases, it may have denoted someone who lived on an upper floor of a building with two or more floors.North German : topographic for someone who lived on the bank of a river or stream name, standardized from Middle Low German over ‘river bank’.Possibly a shortened form of any of various German compound names formed with Ober- (see entries below).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Ober ‘senior’, ‘chief’. In some cases it can denote a rabbi; in others it is ornamental.A 17th-century American bearer of this name, Richard Ober (1641–1715/16), emigrated from Abbotsbury, Dorset, England, to the Salem colony and settled in Mackerel Cove, MA, later Beverly. His descendant Frederick Albion Ober, who was born in Beverly, MA, in 1849, was an ornithologist who discovered 22 new species of birds in the Lesser Antilles, the flycatcher Myiarchus oberi, and oriole Icterus oberi.
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Beaver-stream
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English : habitational name from an unidentified place.Ralph Ellenwood (born 1607) came to Salem, MA, in September 1635 in the Truelove, and later settled in Beverly.
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American, British, Christian, English, Indian
From the Beaver Meadow; Beaver Stream; Name of a Place
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Woman from the beaver meadow. Beaver stream.
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From the beaver meadow.
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From a Beaver Meadow
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From the Beaver Meadow; Meadow of Beavers
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English : variant spelling of Beverley.
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A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church.