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Barbara quoted a passage which, I would stress, is not her writing, which says,"The
arrival of William the Conqueror on the shores of England in 1066 had among its followers
a family by the name of "le Chaundeler" which was later Anglicized to the
present day Chandler. There were several by this name who settled in the early 1600's
in Massachusetts, Virginia, Maryland, and
Delaware................."
This is literally true, but to me there seems to be an implication that all those "by
this name" were related and of the "le Chaundeler" line. There's no
reason I'm aware of to believe that. Chandler is an occupational surname which would
have been taken by wholly unrelated people--insofar as any people are wholly
unrelated--from different villages all over England just as names such as Cooper or Miller
or Wheelwright or Smith or countless others were. This doesn't mean that the various
Chandler families in this country are all unrelated, but the fact that they share a name
doesn't mean that they are.