Sylvestre Name origin and meaning
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"Sylvestre Name Meaning and History
French: from the personal name Sylvestre (see Sylvester).
Dictionary of American Family Names,
Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
Sylvester Name Meaning and History
English and German: from a personal name (Latin Silvester, a derivative of silva ‘wood’).
This was borne by three popes, including a contemporary of Constantine the Great.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Sylvester-…
The surname Sylvestre is a French variant of the surname Sylvester which is English and German: from a personal name (Latin Silvester, a derivative of silva ‘wood’).
This was borne by three popes, including a contemporary of Constantine the Great.
As the surname has more than one origin you would, as always, need to research your ancestors and learn their origins.
Surname etymologies are generic and simply state the first know place a surname is recorded and may have nothing to do with the history of your family.
Sylvester Surname History
This name has its origins in a Latin given name, "Silvester", a derivative of the word "silva", meaning wood, and denoting "the dweller in the wood".
The personal name was borne by three Popes, including a contemporary of Constantine the Great, and seems to have been first used in England by clerics.
The personal name was first recorded in Leicestershire in 1154 as "Silvester", and in 1204, in Yorkshire, as "Selvester", and the surname first appeared afterwards as "Silvestr" (see below).
The surname development includes: William Silvester (1250, Lancashire), and William Sevester (1455, Kent). The modern surname has a number of variants, ranging from
Silvester, Selvester and Sylvester, to Siviter and Seveter.
One Abram Silvester, aged 14 yrs., was an early emigrant to the New World, leaving London in January 1634, bound for Virginia.
A Coat of Arms granted to the Silvester family is a silver shield, with an oak tree eradicated green, and two red crescents in chief,
The Crest being a lion's head erased green.
In Heraldry,
the oak tree signifies Antiquity and Strength,
and the crescent is associated with Faith and Hope.
The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Thomas Silvestr,
which was dated 1212, in the "Book of Fees for Hampshire", during the reign of King John,
known as "Lackland", 1199 - 1216. http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Sylvest"
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