Chalkley Family History
- Chalkley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from an unidentified place (probably in southern England, where the surname is commonest and where chalk hills abound), apparently named with Old English cealc ‘chalk’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’. The source may be Chalkley Farm in Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire, which is recorded from the 12th century.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 114,941 Historical Documents with Chalkley on Ancestry
- 37,385 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 35,275 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,464 Military Records
- 1,479 Immigration Records
- 38,338 Member Trees
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Number of Chalkley families
 212 - 422  71 - 211 |
 1 - 70  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Chalkley census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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