Chantry Family History
- Chantry Name Meaning
- English: from Old French chanterie, a term which originally meant the singing or chanting of a mass, but later came to denote in turn the endowment of a priest to sing mass daily on behalf of the souls of the dead, the priest so endowed, and eventually the chapel where he officiated. The surname therefore may have arisen from a metonymic occupational name for the servant of a chantry priest, or possibly for the priest himself, or alternatively from a topographic name for someone who lived by a chantry chapel.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 53,623 Historical Documents with Chantry on Ancestry
- 15,555 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 11,678 Census and Voter Lists
- 807 Military Records
- 524 Immigration Records
- 25,059 Member Trees
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Number of Chantry families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Chantry families
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69 - 135 24 - 68 |
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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 1880 Federal Census Data
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