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chappell Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived near a chapel, from Middle English chapel(l)e ‘chapel’, via Old French, from Late Latin capella, originally a diminutive of capa ‘hood’, ‘cloak’, but later transferred to the sense ‘chapel’, ‘sanctuary’, with reference to the shrine at Tours where the cloak of St. Martin was preserved as a relic.
  2. Americanized spelling of French Chappelle.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of chappell Families in the US in 1920
Number of chappell families
 90-178
 31-89		 1-30
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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John Chappell,Edward W Chappell,Robert A Chappell sweetthing68 0
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Who is Conrad Steven Chappell DarlaC100 0
Mar CHAPPELL marr John DANIELS about 1644 pamkerz 4
Samuel Chappell b. 1847 scottchpl 0
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Lillian Chappell Chicago obit ambrose1889 0
Joseph Chappell, Proncess Anne Virginia sparky2312 1
George Henry Chappell b 18 Mar 1840 New York smithsusan993 5
Martha Chappell in Oswego, NY in 1878 Kmiltont 1
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