Chappell Family History
Chappell Name Meaning
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.Americanized spelling
of French Chappelle.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Chappell
Name Distribution of Chappell Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Chappell families
 90 - 178  31 - 89 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Chappell families
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543 - 1,084 182 - 542 |
1 - 181 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Chappell families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Chappell Family Origin
Chappell Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Chappell
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Chappell Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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