Chan Family History
Chan Name Meaning
Chinese : Cantonese variant of Chen.Chinese : variant transcription of Zhan.Vietnamese (Chân): unexplained.Galician and
Portuguese: topographic name from a field named Chan (Galician)
or Chã (Portuguese), from Latin plana ‘level’,
‘flat’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Chan
Name Distribution of Chan Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Chan families
 22 - 42  8 - 21 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Chan families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Chan census records
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Chan Family Origin
Chan Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Chan families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Chan Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Chan census records
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Military Service by Chan
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