Chipley Family History
Chipley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places called Chipley, in Somerset
and Devon, or from Chipley Abbey in Suffolk, each having as the second
element Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’. In the case of
Chipley, Somerset, the first element was probably the Old English
personal name Cippa, while Chipley in Devon is named with Old
English ceap ‘price’, ‘purchase’, and the Suffolk place name
derives from Old English cipp ‘log’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Chipley
Name Distribution of Chipley Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Chipley families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Chipley families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Chipley Family Origin
Chipley Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Chipley
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Chipley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Chipley census records
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Chipley Civil War Service Records
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