Hello Kathy
To start with the details you sent are not
familiar to me. We have US Chant researchers
Pam Chant, Sherron Biddle and Richard Rogers may
recognise the names you mentioned. Canadian Chant
researcher Beryl Grant may have some leads that way
but the Canadian Chant's do not seem to have traced
their lines much or have not as yet become aware of
this list.
The Chant name appears in Dorset, Lincolnshire,
Somerset and Wiltshire in the 1500's. Devon in the
1600's. London in the 1700's, US, Canada, Australia
and New Zealand in the early to mid 1800's. The Main
exodus occuring from the 1830's onward as the
industrial revoltion, 1840's crop failures and
American Civil War all greatly impacted upon the
Rural workers of England putting many out of work.
So a large number went overseas seeking new
opportunities. Some villages in the South of
England lost 60-80% of their populations to
emigration.
Predominantly most Chant researchers have connections
to five lines from Somerset, Three from Dorset
and Two from Wiltshire. These family lines branching
out all over the place. To link up with any of the
10 or so main Chant families will be great as they
are well researched for some branches but not all.
Many of those missing branches are due to lost lines
moving away from the home county and as yet have not
been traced mostly after 1800 as tracing all lines
would be prohibitively costly. Possibly yours is one
of these branches that to date have proved difficult
to locate.
As your research is fairly recent up to 1909 or so
you will need to confirm your info from official
resources. The 10 yearly US census records may be an
aid but you should really search for the girls
marriage certificates, their fathers name can then
be cross referenced against other record sources.
You would need to write to Spokane requesting if
certificates are available. Also check your relatives
of your father, (I gather the Chant descendant) to
see if they might hold the original copies.
The girls father's death certificate is also needed,
which may indicate if he was born in the US, Canada
or elsewhere. It gets easier to find common ancestors
with other researchers in the 1800's as there were
less Chant named people back then and most were
concentrated in the south of the England.
So you may need to do a bit of work yourself unless
you get lucky and someone on this list knows about
your line already. You may have to follow the
fathers records back and maybe the grandfathers
before a link is more likely.
Chant named people can be traced back through Birth
Death and Marriage records from Registry offices from
1837 in England, 1840's in Australia and by the
1850's in most English and many non English speaking
countries. Before that we have to rely on primarily
the Parish Church records.
I hope this has been of some help.
regards
Michael Cheeseman
Descendant of Dorset Chant's
Family Links to three Somerset Chant lines.
Via Mudford, Chant and Patten Family branches.
--- Clark Lynn <clynn(a)ba.net> wrote: > Date: Sun, 04
Feb 2001 11:39:07 -0300
From: Clark Lynn <clynn(a)ba.net>
To: Michael Cheeseman
<forever_fossicking(a)yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [CHANT] Chant Surname
Michael,
I am trying to find out more info about a Chant line
in the US. I am living in
Argentina until this coming July and have not been
able to devote all the time
and resources that are needed. I have not been able
to find any trace of this
line in my searches on the internet..
This is what I know:
C. S. B. Chant lived in Spokane, Washington in the
NW part of the US at the turn
of the century. His wife's name is unknown but she
did have a sister living in
Montana at about that time named Margaret Gillett.
The Chant family was
Episcopalian and they had two children,daughters
that were married in Spokane
around 1909- 1911 to graduates of West Point.
Margaret Hazel Chant married Clark
Lynn and Chrystal Chant married Lloyd Fredendall. I
know that the daughters were
both graduates of St Mary's in Knoxville, IL. The
family evidently lived on
Second Avenue in Spokane. Most of this has been
gleaned from articles about the
weddings in a society magazine published in Spokane.
Unfortunately I cannot
determine the name of the magazine or the date.
Since it was near the Canadian border, it is
possible that he is from one of the
Canadian lines of Chant. There are not that many
Chants in the US although I
found some listed in telephone directories from the
nw part of the US.
If anyone shows a CSB Chant in their lines, I would
appreciate any info.
Thanks,
Kathy Lynn
clynn(a)ba.net
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