Chant Family History
Chant Name Meaning
French: from Old French chant ‘song’, applied as a metonymic
occupational name for a singer in a chantry, or possibly as a nickname
for a noted songster.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Chant
Name Distribution of Chant Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Chant families
 212 - 422  71 - 211 |
 1 - 70  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Chant families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Chant census records
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Chant Family Origin
Chant Emigration Information (US)
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Chant Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Chant
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