Chew Name Meaning and History
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English: Habitational name from places called Chew, in West Yorkshire and in the parish of Billington, Lancashire, named with Old English ceo "fish gill", used in the transferred sense of a ravine, in a similar way to Old Norse gil.
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Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Chew is an ancient Norman name that arrived in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Chew family lived in Somerset. The family was originally from the area of Cheux, near Carne, Normandy, and it from a reference to this location that the name derives.
The name has been spelled Chew, Chewe, Chewning, Chue and others.
First found in Somerset, where the family was seated from very early times. The Chews were granted lands by Duke William of Normandy, their liege Lord, for their distinguished assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D. The earliest recorded bearer of the name was Randal de Chiw, who was listed in the Assize Rolls of Somerset in 1201.
Viewing the Chew family charts you'll see how this line of our family has been traced to the Lancashire area of early England as mentioned above.
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