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Subject: [DOR] Re: DORSET-D Digest V01 #369
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:41:00 EST
In a message dated 19/12/01 08:04:17 GMT Standard Time,
writes:
> I have ancestors in the Lyme Regis area of Dorset in the period c1790 to
> c1850. Although the name is not that common in Dorset, it seems to be
> fairly common in Devon and, of course, there is that ancient place of Chard
> in Somerset. Am I under some sort of mind set that my family name is
> possibly connected with the town of Chard? I have just looked through P.H.
> Reaney's book " The Origin of English Surnames " and it appears that the
> surname is not of English origin, so the assumption must be that it is
> co-incidental that my family settled in a part of the country which boasted
> a town whose history went back to the times of the earliest human
> settlement in Britain. Would anybody like to comment?? Regards, Peter in
> Auckland, NZ.
>
>
You say Chard is not common in Dorset - but there were at least two families,
unrelated, in Bridport in the 1950s.
Judith Sturminster Newton
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