Driver (surname)

Driver (surname)

Driver is an English occupational surname[1] meaning the driver of horses or oxen attached to a cart or plough, or of loose cattle.[2] It is recorded since the thirteenth century.[1]

List of People with the surname Driver

See also

References

  1. ^ a b P. H. Reaney (edited by R. M. Wilson) (1997). A Dictionary of English surnames. Oxford University Press. 
  2. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (1988). A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press. 

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