Feaviour Family History

from Anglo-Norman French fevereir feveriere a variant of Old French fevere ‘smith’; see Feaver. Feverel now extinct may be a diminutive form.

apparently from Anglo-Norman French and Middle English feveryer feverel ‘February’ perhaps given to someone born in that month or to an old man.

In John Trevisa's translation of Polychronicon (1387) ‘February is paynted as an olde man sittynge by the fyre’.

However some or all examples may be mis-interpretations of the name in (i).