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chalmers Name Meaning and History

Scottish: variant of Chambers. The -l- was originally an orthographic device to indicate the length of the vowel after assimilation of -mb- to -m(m)-.

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chalmers Family Facts

Distribution of chalmers Families in the US in 1920
Number of chalmers families
 51-100
 18-50
 1-17
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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