Welcome to the Ravest Website. \u00a0The aim of this site is to bring together all the Ravests of this world.<\/p>\n
Our surname Ravest, (or Revest if you are in France), is unusual and is shared by only a few thousand people. \u00a0It is my working assumption that we are all related.<\/p>\n
My research so far suggests the the name started in the south of France. The earliest record that I have found is of a variant of the\u00a0name appearing around 1220, Raymond de la Revest de la Roque. I have found a few somewhat later records of individuals with the name Ravest, but this variant appears to be a corruption of original name Revest.\u00a0 I believe the two names refer to the same family. The Revests of France are still concentrated near Marseilles.<\/p>\n
A example of the attitude to spelling in early records is a letter of 1773 which has three spelling of the name of the same individual:<\/p>\n
“Sinety, Valbarelle pr\u00e9s de Marseille, renseignements sur le n\u00e9gociant droguiste Ravest ou Reves,de Marseille., ils ne sont pas de la maison des Villeneuve, marquis de Trans., mais une de leur branche \u00e9tablie autrefois \u00e0 Marseille.. Mr Revest qui est n\u00e9gociant d\u00e9tailleur qui a une tr\u00e8s bonne r\u00e9putation et lui donner votre confiance pour tout ce que aurez \u00e0 tirer de Marseille… son adresse Mr Fran\u00e7ois-Toussaint Ravest, n\u00e9gociant droguiste, rue de Rome” –\u00a0Inventaire des archives des ch\u00e2teau de Saint-Urcisse et de Tauriac (Tarn)<\/p>\n
A Francisco Ravest from France married into a noble family in Chile and appears to be the origin of the Chilean Ravests. \u00a0In France he was most likely known as Francois Revest and I have found a few of that name who might have travelled to Chile.<\/p>\n
The English Ravest family derives its\u00a0name from Guillermo Ravest who, as a lieutenant in the Chilean Navy, was in England c. 1910-11. \u00a0He was probably involved in the design\/specification of a new class of Destroyer for the Chilean Navy, the Admirante Lynch class. \u00a0He returned to Chile in 1911.<\/p>\n
Guillermo Ravest was my grandfather.<\/p>\n
More research is needed to link the story together.<\/p>\n
– Julian Ravest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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