Chestnut Family History
Chestnut Name Meaning
English: from early English chesten nut ‘chestnut’ (from
Middle English chesteine ‘chestnut’ + nut), a
topographic name for someone who lived by a chestnut tree, or possibly
a nickname for someone with chestnut-colored hair.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Chestnut
Name Distribution of Chestnut Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Chestnut families
 7 - 11  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Chestnut families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Chestnut census records
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Chestnut Family Origin
Chestnut Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Chestnut Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Chestnut census records
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Military Service by Chestnut
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