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chatham Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Chatham in Kent or possibly from Chatham Green in Essex, both named from Celtic ced ‘wood’ (modern Welsh coed) + Old English ham ‘homestead’.

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chatham Family Facts

Distribution of chatham Families in the US in 1920
Number of chatham families
 40-77
 14-39
 1-13
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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