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Shumate Name Meaning
Americanized form of southern French De la Chaumette, a
topographic name for someone who lived on a chaumette, a high,
arid plateau with very little vegetation, derived from a diminutive of
chaume ‘bare land’ (a specialized sense of Latin calmus
‘calm’, ‘unruffled’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Shumate Families
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Number of Shumate families
 54 - 105  19 - 53 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Shumate Family Origin
Shumate Immigration Information
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Shumate Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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