Chandley Family History
- Chandley Name Meaning
- English (Lancashire and Cheshire): unexplained; perhaps a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, or an altered form of Chandler. Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Schändle, either a variant of Schandel, a metonymic occupational name for a candle maker, from Middle High German schandel (from French chandelle ‘candle’), or a derogatory nickname for an evil-doer, from a diminutive of Middle High German schande ‘shame’, ‘disgrace’, ‘ignominy’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 38,406 Historical Documents with Chandley on Ancestry
- 11,019 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,327 Census and Voter Lists
- 936 Military Records
- 456 Immigration Records
- 18,668 Member Trees
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Number of Chandley families
 40 - 78  14 - 39 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- 16
- Confederate
- 1
- Union
- 15
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