Chessor Family Tree research resources
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Chessor records on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out your Chessor family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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Historical References
"CHESSOR. From Cheshire in England, pronounced Chesser, and spelled Chesher and Chessire. Ronald Chessure was admitted burgess of Aberdeen, 1604 (NSCM., i, p. 99), William Chessor was burgess there in 1611 (ROA., i, p. 231), William Chessour and John Chessor in Goullie (or Gullie) appear in 1633 (SCM., m, p. 81, 130), and Edward Chessor appears in same year (ibid., p. 80). Thomas Chesser was witness in Brabuster, 1626 (OSS., i, 158), Frances Chessyre is in record in Edinburgh, 1649 (Edinb. Man.), William Chesser in Aberdeen in 1726 (NSCM., n, p. 116), and George Chessor in Strathrey in 1735 (CRA.). Chessour 1634. "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)
DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Chessor Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Chessor Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Chessor family tree.
Check out Chessor Parish Records at Find My Past.
Investigate the UK registered births, marriages and deaths for the Chessor family name using the FreeBMD database.
Study Genealogy Bank for Chessor family records.
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Explore the LDS Database for records of the Chessor family.
Research the Chessor surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Chessor Military records.
Chessor Family History Databases
Search WikiTree for user contributed Chessor family records. Collaboration is encouraged so that accuracy of Chessor data can be verified or corrected by other users.
Investigate MyTrees for information on the Chessor family and people looking to contact living Chessor relations.
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Miscellaneous Chessor Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on the Chessor family. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Use the Surname Map project to look at the current distribution of the Chessor surname in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Romania.
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