Chalkley Family History
- Chalkley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from an unidentified place (probably in southern England, where the surname is commonest and where chalk hills abound), apparently named with Old English cealc ‘chalk’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’. The source may be Chalkley Farm in Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire, which is recorded from the 12th century.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 123,578 Historical Documents with Chalkley on Ancestry
- 34,709 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 35,236 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,336 Military Records
- 1,445 Immigration Records
- 49,852 Member Trees
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Number of Chalkley families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Chalkley families
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212 - 422 71 - 211 |
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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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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- 49
- Confederate
- 47
- Union
- 2
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