Chene Family History
- Chene Name Meaning
- French (Chêne): from Old French chesne ‘oak’ (Late Latin caxinus), hence a topographic name denoting someone who lived near a conspicuous oak tree or in an oak wood, or perhaps occasionally a nickname for a man with a ‘heart of oak’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 33,461 Historical Documents with Chene on Ancestry
- 15,194 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,967 Census and Voter Lists
- 641 Military Records
- 990 Immigration Records
- 12,669 Member Trees
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Number of Chene families
 6 - 10  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Chene families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Chene census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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