probable derivation of name Redvers (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Saturday, March 27, 2010, 07:20 (5434 days ago) @ RER

This accounts for the use as a christian name around the turn of late 1800 / early 1900 .

Redvers Buller was born in 1839 in Crediton Devon.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/southwest/series5/general_buller.shtml

1841 Downes House
James Buller abt 1799 Devon, England Crediton, Devon
Charlotte Buller abt 1811 Crediton, Devon
Julia Buller abt 1833 Crediton, Devon
James Buller abt 1836 Devon, England Crediton, Devon
Adele Buller abt 1838 Devon, England Crediton, Devon
Redvers Buller abt 1840 Devon, England Crediton, Devon

The De REDVERS / De REVIERS family had been long established as Earls of Devon since the early 1100's.

Richard de Ripariis, afterwards anglicized into Redvers, or less commonly, Rivers, and, King Henry created him Earl of Devon,
conferred upon him the lordship of Tiverton, which continued to be the principal seat of his descendants until the reign of
Queen Mary, and also gave him the great barony of Plympton.

Richard, first Earl of Devon, died in the year 1107; he was succeeded by his eldest son Baldwin "de Redvers," as second earl.

The De REDVERS family ties into the COURTNAY family of Landrake, a marriage into the BULLERs leads eventually to the father of Redvers BULLER - James Wentworth Buller, MP

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