Cheverall Family History

from Great or Little Cheverell in Wilts. from Middle English chevrelle Old French chevrele chevrelle ‘kid’ (before 1400 OED) but in Middle English always used in the sense of cheverel leather ‘kid leather’.

The name may have been given to someone who wore kid leather or who sold articles made from it as in the case of the Londoner below whose different name forms prove that Cheverel was sometimes a reduced form of Chevereller ‘a maker or seller of kid-leather goods’.

Compare Ralph le Cheverelmongere 1310 in London Letter Books B.