Researching Joan Chambers
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 17030 people with the Chambers surname? In that year Chambers was ranked number 219 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Joan means "God's gracious gift" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Joan Chambers on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Joan Chambers in your 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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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Joan Chambers and the Chambers Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Chambers 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 below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. 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 Chambers family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 24817 people with the Chambers surname in the UK? Chambers is now ranked number 204 for popularity in the UK. |
Chambers Family Tree Databases
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Chambers Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 112415 people with the Chambers surname in the USA? Chambers is ranked number 120 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Chambers Databases
Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Joan Chambers. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
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Joan Chambers
Joan Heywood Chambers, née Murray (18 March 1930 – 29 August 2016) was an Australian politician.
She was born in Elsternwick to company manager James McNab Murray and Annie Hale Shaw. She attended Ormond State School and Tintern Church of England Girls Grammar School before receiving a Bachelor of Arts (1950) and Diploma of Education (1951) from the University of Melbourne. She became a secondary schoolteacher at Kyabram in 1952, at Hampton in 1953, at Mortlake from 1968 to 1977 and at Ballarat from 1978 to 1979 and from 1982. On 21 November 1953 she married Major John Alexander Chambers, a soldier-turned-farmer; they had six children. Chambers joined the Liberal Party in 1969 and held a number of positions including secretary of the Alfredton branch (1978–81), a member of the federal electorate council for the Division of Wannon, and a member of the state executive (1977–78). In 1979 she was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Ballarat South, but she was defeated in 1982. She unsuccessfully sought preselection for Warrnambool in 1983, and ran again for Ballarat South in 1988, losing narrowly and taking the result to the Court of Disputed Returns. She was an independent candidate for Ballarat West in 1992.
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