Researching Charles Chamberlain
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 8148 people with the Chamberlain surname? In that year Chamberlain was ranked number 495 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Charles means "Man, strong" and is of German origin.
Records of Charles Chamberlain on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Charles Chamberlain and the Chamberlain Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Chamberlain 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 Chamberlain family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 11613 people with the Chamberlain surname in the UK? Chamberlain is now ranked number 498 for popularity in the UK. |
Chamberlain Family History Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 33421 people with the Chamberlain surname in the USA? Chamberlain is ranked number 146 for popularity in the USA. |
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Charles Chamberlain. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Charles Chamberlain
Charles Joseph Chamberlain
Charles Joseph Chamberlain, Ph.D. (February 23, 1863 – February 5, 1943) was an American botanist, born near Sullivan, Ohio, and educated at Oberlin College and at the University of Chicago, where he earned the first Ph.D. in that institution's botany department, and where he was a long-time employee, becoming associate professor in 1911. He is known for pioneering the use of zoological techniques on the study of plants, particularly in the realm of microscopic studies of tissues and cells; his specialty was the cycad. He made contributions to the Botanical Gazette, and was the author of Methods in Plant Histology (1901) and The Morphology of Angiosperms (1903). In collaboration with John M. Coulter, he wrote The Morphology of Gymnosperms (1910).
Chamberlain married Martha E. Life in 1888 and they had one daughter; after his wife died in 1931, he married Martha Stanley Lathrop in 1938. He died in Chicago, Illinois.
Source: Charles Joseph Chamberlain, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Chamberlain
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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