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THE JARVIS NAME

During the first millenium the Roman Catholic Church of Rome often employed the services of the family named GERRIUS, who were renowned for their writing abilities in producing legal and clerical documents. When the family began to question their faith they fell out of favor with the church. On threat of excommunication, they were forced to flee to France. Over time their name GERRIUS evolved into GERVAIS. They continued to pursue their profession.

Fra Tomas Tertius of the College of Heralds in England, wrote around 1500 A.D. that the GERVAIS (or Gervaise) family, griffoneurs and jongleurs {writers and musicians), during the reign of Filip lst of France (around 1160 A.D.}, and in order to live in harmony with their reformist (Protestant) beliefs, left France and settled in southwest Scotland at Annandale in Dumfrieshire. There they married into the Johnstone clan. As time passed the family spread southward into the midlands of England as their name continued to evolve, from Gervais into Jervis & Jarvis & Jarvice

For information on several famous family members (Admiral John Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent (1734-1823), William Jarvis (1756-1817) Secretary & Treasurer for the Province of Upper Canada, Major General Samuel Peters Jarvis (1820-1905) Companion of the Order of St. Michael & St. George, AEmilius Jarvis S.S.D. (1860-1940), the "Commodore", probably North America's finest fresh-water sailor (winning over 100 international events) contact Robert AE. Jarvis 