Chatham Family History
- Chatham Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from Chatham in Kent or possibly from Chatham Green in Essex, both named from Celtic ced ‘wood’ (modern Welsh coed) + Old English ham ‘homestead’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 160,984 Historical Documents with Chatham on Ancestry
- 58,143 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 27,052 Census and Voter Lists
- 10,059 Military Records
- 2,731 Immigration Records
- 62,999 Member Trees
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Number of Chatham families
 80 - 158  27 - 79 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Chatham families
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11 - 20 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Chatham census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Chatham census records
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