Chew Family History
Chew Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Somerset named Chew
Magna, which is named for the river on which it stands, a Celtic name,
perhaps cognate with Welsh cyw ‘young animal or bird’,
‘chicken’.English: habitational name from places called Chew, in
West Yorkshire and in the parish of Billington, Lancashire, named with
Old English ceo ‘fish gill’, used in the transferred sense
of a ravine, in a similar way to Old Norse gil.English:
derogatory nickname from Middle English chowe ‘chough’, Old
English ceo, a bird closely related to the crow and the
jackdaw, notorious for its chattering and thieving.Korean: variant of Chu.Chinese :
variant of Zhao.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Chew Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Chew families
 332 - 661  111 - 331 |
 1 - 110  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Chew families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Chew Family Origin
Chew Emigration Information (US)
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Chew Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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