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in reply to a message by Charlotte Chalmers
Chalmers is a Scottish variant of the English surname Chambers.
English: occupational name for someone who was employed in the private living quarters of his master, rather than in the public halls of the manor. The name represents a genitive or plural form of Middle English cha(u)mbre ‘chamber’, ‘room’ (Latin camera), and is synonymous in origin with Chamberlain, but as that office rose in the social scale, this term remained reserved for more humble servants of the bedchamber.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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English: occupational name for someone who was employed in the private living quarters of his master, rather than in the public halls of the manor. The name represents a genitive or plural form of Middle English cha(u)mbre ‘chamber’, ‘room’ (Latin camera), and is synonymous in origin with Chamberlain, but as that office rose in the social scale, this term remained reserved for more humble servants of the bedchamber.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
My PNL is now rateable! (Top 25 for each gender): http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/52996/85726
Top rated: Adelaide; Bottom rated: George
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