Researching Alice Chown
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 936 people with the Chown surname? In that year Chown was ranked number 2650 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Alice means "Noble, kind" and is of English origin.
Records of Alice Chown on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Alice Chown and the Chown Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 1059 people with the Chown surname in the UK? Chown is now ranked number 3052 for popularity in the UK. |
Chown Family Tree Databases
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Chown Forums
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Some Famous People called Alice Chown
Alice Amelia Chown
Alice Amelia Chown (3 February 1866 – 2 March 1949) was a Canadian feminist, pacifist, socialist and author. She was brought up in a strict Methodist family, and remained at home until she was forty attending her mother, who died in 1906. Chown then embarked on a life of travel and involvement in many reform causes. She was an original and iconoclastic thinker, and became one of the leading social feminists of her day. She is best known for her 1921 book The Stairway in which she recounts her life and growing freedom after 1906.
Source: Alice Amelia Chown, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Chown
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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