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chilson Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Chilson in Oxfordshire, named with Old English cild ‘young man’ (see Child) + tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.

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chilson Family Facts

Distribution of chilson Families in the US in 1920
Number of chilson families
 44-85
 15-43
 1-14
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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