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ArchivesRe: Alexavier and Dashiell
in reply to a message by Integrity
Well, this page here:
http://www.ancestralfindings.com/surnames/surnamepost/surnames_d_3.htm
also talks about the proposed Dashiell - de Chiel link.
There is, however, no modern French word 'chiel'. But while googling around I noticed that the French de Chiel family is hundreds of years old so the name must be Old French, not French. I suspected that Old French chiel is the same as modern French ciel (sky, heaven). It seems that I was right because I could find pages like the following really using chiel this way:
http://serieslitteraires.org/publication/article.php3?id_article=532
Rene www.AboutNames.ch
http://www.ancestralfindings.com/surnames/surnamepost/surnames_d_3.htm
also talks about the proposed Dashiell - de Chiel link.
There is, however, no modern French word 'chiel'. But while googling around I noticed that the French de Chiel family is hundreds of years old so the name must be Old French, not French. I suspected that Old French chiel is the same as modern French ciel (sky, heaven). It seems that I was right because I could find pages like the following really using chiel this way:
http://serieslitteraires.org/publication/article.php3?id_article=532
Rene www.AboutNames.ch
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