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Hello!
I have been researching my husband's ancestors who were the Jacksons. A christian
name they used was Challice which we have discovered comes from Althea Challice who
married a James Jackson. Althea had a brother John Chalice born 27 October 1754 in
Withersfield, which is in Suffolk but very close to the Cambridgeshire border. Other
siblings are variously listed as Chalice and Challis. Althea and John's father was a
William Chalice, born 1725 at Linton, Cambridgeshire, a couple of villages away. He
married Althea Prior 27 May 1750. The Challice family go back to the 1560s in
Withersfield and 1601 in Linton. I have not been able to establish direct links back yet
as we have only just started. I don't know if this is any use to you.