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chambers Name Meaning and History

English: occupational name for someone who was employed in the private living quarters of his master, rather than in the public halls of the manor. The name represents a genitive or plural form of Middle English cha(u)mbre ‘chamber’, ‘room’ (Latin camera), and is synonymous in origin with Chamberlain, but as that office rose in the social scale, this term remained reserved for more humble servants of the bedchamber.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of chambers Families in the US in 1920
Number of chambers families
 427-851
 143-426		 1-142
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Threads: 1749 - Messages: 4066
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Chambers name change Radena Chambers 1
Chambers from Georgia to Oklahoma Radena Chambers 6
Eveline Chambers married in 1836 in Hancock County, Kentucky MaggieJones24 0
Chambers aburns10334 6
WILLIAM RILEY CHAMBERS b. 1846 Scott County, TN davi01 0
Frank C. Chambers of Paris, TN 1943 drbrownlee 0
Looking for Chambers Clan Ann Keller Chambers 1
CHAMBERS W H 1851 1914 t42IOOF_DenCoTX 0
CHAMBERS infant 1897 1897 son of W H and Laura A Chambers t42IOOF_DenCoTX 0
CHAMBERS John A 1898 1899 t42IOOF_DenCoTX 0
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