Chattaway facts and fun
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
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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Foleshill Coventry was also a focal point for the early chattaways
-heres a small arcticle on it
Foleshill, a town, a parish, and the head of a poor-law union in Warwickshire. The town stands adjacent to the Oxford and Coventry Canals, 2 1/4 miles NNE of Coventry, has a station on the Coventry and Nuneaton branch of the L. & N.W.R., and a post office under Coventry (money order and telegraph office, Coventry), and participates in the ribbon, silk, and'other manufactures of Coventry. The parish comprises 2689 acres; population, 8664. It includes the hamlet of Longford, which has a post and telegraph office and a station on the railway. Iron-founding, coal-mining, and brick-making are carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. Population of ecclesiastical parish, 4559. The church is ancient, was restored in 1889, and has a Norman font. The church of St Thomas is a chapel of ease erected in 1874. St Paul's is an ecclesiastical parish constituted in 1842. Population, 4105. The living is a vicarage in the gift of the Vicar of Foleshill; gross value, £321. The church is a red brick edifice in the Early English style. There are Congregational, Baptist, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a workhouse.