Chalmers Family History
Chalmers Name Meaning
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)-.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Chalmers
Name Distribution of Chalmers Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Chalmers families
 133 - 264  45 - 132 |
 1 - 44  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Chalmers families
|
798 - 1,593 267 - 797 |
1 - 266 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Chalmers census records
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Chalmers Family Origin
Chalmers Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Chalmers Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Chalmers families immigrated
to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Chalmers Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Chalmers census records
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Military Service by Chalmers
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