Chappell Family History
Chappell Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a chapel,
from Middle English chapel(l)e ‘chapel’, via Old French, from
Late Latin capella, originally a diminutive of capa
‘hood’, ‘cloak’, but later transferred to the sense ‘chapel’,
‘sanctuary’, with reference to the shrine at Tours where the cloak of
St. Martin was preserved as a relic.Americanized spelling
of French Chappelle.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Chappell
Name Distribution of Chappell Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Chappell families
 543 - 1,084  182 - 542 |
 1 - 181  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Chappell families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Chappell census records
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Chappell Family Origin
Chappell Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Chappell Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Chappell Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Chappell census records
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Military Service by Chappell
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