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chancellor Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: status name for a secretary or administrative official, from Old French chancelier, Late Latin cancellarius ‘usher (in a law court)’. The King’s Chancellor was one of the highest officials in the land, but the term was also used to denote the holder of a variety of offices in the medieval world, such as the secretary or record keeper in a minor manorial household. In some cases the name undoubtedly originated as a nickname or as an occupational name for someone in the service of such an official.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of chancellor Families in the US in 1920
Number of chancellor families
 32-62
 11-31		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Minnie Chancellor m. Abraham Steinmetz (1874-1937) troypix1 0
George Chancellor married Mary Bell OK ? JacquelineBrown57 5
Chancellors in Indiana sweetgalb4 0
chancellor family judy chancellor 41
alabamachancellors (will&lula)... lamarchancellor 1
chancellors in the midlands brownnanny 1
Tom Chancellor OK and TX 1880-1900 PeggyGuinnBowen 0
Chancellors in Alabama Craig A. Chancellor 41
Ruben Chancellor & Gilbert & Margaret . marychancellor 2
VIrginia Chancellor Descendants RayChancellor 1
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