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Where and how did the chattaway name originate ?

Berkeswell near Coventry is the ealiest source of the name we now know as Chattaway, and as far as I can see all the known Chattaways in the world come from Thomas Chatweye and Ann in 1600 (married 1624) obviously they had parents but the name was hard to find before then, so I expect the varation before Thomas was significanly different.

Before this time it could have been chete way chat way or a hundred different spellings.

From 1600 to mid to late 1600s the spelling kept changing to chatway chatoway, chatway, chatteway, chetway and many other variations.

Towards the end of 1600s it stabilises to chattaway, with one or 2 Ts.

There are many instances of the same person having their name spelt in various ways

Why was this ? The litteral people of the time still didnt have great communication and no concensus of opinion, so some spelt words as they sounded.

There are many many instances right up to the 1900s where names where spelt phonetically even by cencus takers.

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Estimated chattaways from 1600 ad to 2008 is/was only 3500 total.

Chattaways alive now est. about 1,200

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Chattaway Births around the world in 410 years (aprox)

1600-1700 = 56 chattaways

1700-1720 30

1721-1750 38

1741-1770 33

1761-1790 76

1791-1810 115

1811-1830 190

1831-1850 320

1851-1870 405

1871-1890 342

1891-1910 330

1911-1930 310

1931-1950 280

1951-1970 170

1971-1990 91

1991-2010 70

The chattaways peaked in 1851-1871 as I suspect most english families did during the industrial revolution.

The last two figures will rise a little as I havent got all the data yet - but the trend is clearly downwards.

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Most occurring Male and Female Chattaway names

William 192 1. Mary
John 180 2.Sarah
Thomas 131 3. Ann(e)
Arthur 67 4. Elizabeth
Joseph 64 5. Emma
Richard 57 6. Hannah

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The Main UK centres for Chattaways were Coventry/ Bradford/ Birmingham/ Stepney There were very few outside of these 4 areas. from 1600-1850

Then from 1850-1860 we popped like a mushroom .....exploding spores

all over the world.

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Interesting Chattaway forenames:-

Abyah

Alethea

Alonzo

Barnabus

Beaula

Bebbe

Blanche Primrose

Brydie

Caley

Christabel

Cosmo

Darla

Darrick

Ducilla

Eliyahatt

Eustace

Felix

Florence Nightingale

Granville

Gwenndine

Heric

Indianna rose

Isaiah

Jannell

Jasper

Jaunita

Joy devine

Judd

Laetitia

Lottie

Mae

Massie

Micah

Nesta

Patrisse

Polly

Renee

Ruskin

Scooter

Salome

Sheldon

Smiley

Sol loui

Stafan

Stitt

Tara

Urwin

Verity

Whilemina

Yoome

If every Chattaway had unusual names this project would have been finished years ago !!!!

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Chattaways married these surnames thoughout the world :- 750 +

abbey
adcock
addison
adkins
ainsworth
aldbridge
alford
allcock
allen
allitt
altereith
andrews
anson
archer
armatage
arnold
ashby
aston
astsham
atkins
atkinson
austin
aylward
bagge
bailey
baillargeon
baines
bairstow
baitjes
baker
bale
ball
band
bannister
barclay
barlow
barnes
barnett
barrett
barroclough
bartlam
barton
bash
bastock
bateman
bates
bath
baufoy
baxter
bayes
bayliss
beardshaw
beaufoy
beaverback
beavon
beddows
belcher
bell
bell
belts
bennett
bent
bently
berrows
berry
biddle
bird
black
blackner
blakely
blanche
blomer
bolton
bording
bowden
bowman
bowns
boyce
branford
brannon
brewin
briggs
brindley
brint
brittain
britten
broadbent
brookbank
brookes
brophy
broughton
brow
brown
budd
burden
burrows
buttrick
buxton
byard
byfeild
byrd
caldicott
callant
cameron
cannon
cantrill
carey
carnegie
carpenter
carter
cartwright
cashman
cass
castillo
caswell
cavanagh
cawood
chamberlain
chambers
chantrill
chapman
checkelts
chester
childs
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