Chalmers Family History
Chalmers Name Meaning
Scottish: variant of Chambers. The -l- was originally
an orthographic device to indicate the length of the vowel after
assimilation of -mb- to -m(m)-.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Chalmers
Name Distribution of Chalmers Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Chalmers families
 51 - 100  18 - 50 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Chalmers families
|
133 - 264 45 - 132 |
1 - 44 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Chalmers families
|
798 - 1,593 267 - 797 |
1 - 266 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Chalmers census records
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Chalmers Family Origin
Chalmers Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Chalmers
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Chalmers Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Chalmers census records
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Chalmers Civil War Service Records
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