Chalfant Family History
Chalfant Name Meaning
Variant of English Chalfont, habitational name from either
of two places in Buckinghamshire, Chalfont St. Giles and Chalfont St.
Peter, named with Old English cealf ‘calf’ + funta
‘spring’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Chalfant
Name Distribution of Chalfant Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Chalfant families
 53 - 103  18 - 52 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Chalfant families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Chalfant census records
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Chalfant Family Origin
Chalfant Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Chalfant
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Chalfant Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Chalfant census records
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Chalfant Civil War Service Records
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