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'Teves'...What does it mean?

'Teves'...What does it mean?

Miles Teves (View posts)
Posted: 29 Apr 2003 4:43AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Teves
Dear friends and relatives! My name is Miles Teves. I live and work in the entertainment business in Los angeles California. I am the son of James Teves, the only child of George and Dorathy Teves of Soledad California. George Teves moved from Hawaii to California where he ran the only Gas service station in that quiet little town. Based on old family pictures it looks like George's Father (my Great Grandfather) moved to Hawaii to work in the sugar cane feilds at the turn of the Century. It appears that he married a big fat native islander woman (though it is hard to tell) and had 4 sons and a daughter who all moved to central California to live humble working lives. My question is one that has haunted me for decades - What does TEVES mean and where exactly does it come from!!! I have heard that it was the name of a river in Portugal, and that it comes from the root verb in Portuguese 'Tieve' meaning 'to have' and that Teves means 'to have a lot'! I have also heard that the original version of the name is 'Tavares', and that it became simplified somewhere along the way in America. All I have fpound are contradictions. Does anyone realy know what is going on whith our wonderful (yet confoundingly difficult to pronounce in resturaunts) family name???

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Mike Teves (View posts)
Posted: 3 May 2003 12:01PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am also in search of the 'Teves' family tree. We came from the Philippines. I have a son living in California who is also nicknamed 'Miles', and a daughter Stephanie nicknamed 'Tippie'. It is exciting to know that there are quite a number of us 'Teves' in the US.

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Posted: 11 Sep 2003 8:13PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 18 May 2006 12:16AM GMT
I'm not really sure of the meaning. But I have Teves (originally de Teve) ancestors on the island of Sao Miguel, Azores. My ancestors were one of the first families settled on that island and were very illustrious. My 12th great grandfather held the title of Cavaleiro which means cavalier or knight. The name is also spelled as Teve, Teves and Teives.

Your Teves family may very well be from Sao Miguel Island. Many of the Azoreans went to Hawaii to work in the sugar cane fields. If you are interested in more information you can email me direct.

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Posted: 11 Sep 2003 8:14PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 18 May 2006 12:16AM GMT
PS Tavares is a different name entirely. From what I know.

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David Teves (View posts)
Posted: 2 Oct 2003 6:06AM GMT
Classification: Query
Miles,
The name Teves (or de Teves) in its Portugese incarnation is almost excusively from the island of Sao Miguel in the Azores. I can't emphasize this enough. The name is almost non-existant on other islands in the Azores and in mainland Portugal. The name, however, has its roots in middle Europe, probably France. There may also be a possible Jewish connection since the name Teves is also the name of a month in the Jewish calender. I haven't, however, been able to link the two together. I live in California, but I was born in on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. My father, grandfather worked for the Koloa Sugarcane Plantation. My great-grandfather, Luis Jose de Teves was from San Jose Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel. All the Teves' came to Hawaii in the late 19th century to work in the sugar cane plantations. I think I am on firm ground in telling you that all of us Teves' are related. You and I are cousins, we just don't know exactly how. Are your relatives from Kauai? There were two Teves families on the island who inexplicably didn't know each other. If you would like to discuss this in depth, please email me at drteves@citlink.net David Teves (Loved Robocop, by the way)

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Posted: 24 Jul 2004 3:33PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello David,
The name Teves is a Frisian christian name as welle as a familyname. The eldest christian name I have found so far is about 1750 AD. In the old days this name was also written as TEEUWES or TEEUWIS.
Pier
Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.

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David Teves (View posts)
Posted: 25 Jul 2004 2:09AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello Pier!

It is very interesting to hear from you. My Teves' family is from Sao Miguel, Azores. They immigrated there in the 1500's, I believe from France. Do you know anything else about the name. If so, I would be grateful to hear it.

David Teves

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Posted: 6 Aug 2007 8:53PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Teves
I have a Family Name History certificate from the Historical Research Center that says this about the last name:

"...The Portuguese surname Teves and its variants Teive and Teve is of local or toponymic origin, being derived from the name of the place of residence of the initial bearer of the surname. In this instance, the surname derives from the place-name Teive which is the name of an estate located near the city of Porto. This estate was held by one Vasco Pires de Temes whose son Vasco Pires de Teive was the first to bear the surname. The latter's daughter Florenca de Teive married D. Ricarte who it is believed ws the illegitimate son of King John of England.

Outside mainland Portugal the name took the form of Teves, while in Spain, where the "ei" dipthong does not occur, the surname is spelt Teva, Tebes, or Teves. Andrea Maria Teves and Josefa de Teva are recorded in the Indice de los apellidos probados en la Orden de Carlos III.

BLAZON OF ARMS: Quarterly: first and fourth or; six rooundles gules; second and third argent; six "mosquetas" sable.

CREST: A lion couped or an ermine.

ORIGIN: Portugal"

-Historical Research Center



--My family also comes from Sao Miguel, Acores and emigrated to the US in the 1970's... we probably are all related!

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Posted: 8 Aug 2007 3:49AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thanks for the information, but I don't believe that the name Teves, as it applies to my ancestors from San Miguel, Azores, is a Portuguese name. From my research it appears that the name came from France, Belgium or the Netherlands. This first Teves ancestor probably imigrated to San Miguel in the early 1500's. There are almost no Teves' lving in mainland Portugal. Most of the Portuguese Teves' are congregated on the island of San Miguel and are probably from one common ancestor. I believe that all Teves' from San Miguel are related to each other in some way.

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Posted: 25 Aug 2009 6:22AM GMT
Classification: Query
Michael teves is also the son of dorathy teves of soledad california where him and his brother were raised on the chicken ranch? weird
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