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From: "Geoff Riggs" <>
Subject: Re: CHAFFIN/ CHAFFEY/CHAFIE Family - Sherborne Dorset
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 13:14:41 -0000


Hi Jim,

Miss Phyllis J. Drake, of 13 Roundmead Road, Basingstoke, Hants, RG21 8TR
has registered the surname CHAFFIN with the Guild of One-Name Studies. She
has apparently built up a collection of data on CHAFFIN and its variant
CHAFYN. This may not include any data on CHAFIE or CHAFFEY, but you could
contact her to see if she can be of help (from personal experience, it's
always meaningful to let other researchers know where you got their name
from, of course).

Hope this proves fruitful for you

Geoff Riggs, Chepstow, South Wales
Guild of One-Name Studies Bookstall Manager and
Regional Representative for Wales

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 2:06 PM
Subject: CHAFFIN/ CHAFFEY/CHAFIE Family - Sherborne Dorset

> Hi
>
> I just wondered if anyone else is researching the above names? I
recently
> found that my Great Grandfather (in Liverpool in 1881) was born in
Sherborne
> in Dorset. The rest of his line back to 1777 also apear to have stayed
in
> Sherborne. I noted a very heavy concentration of this rare name in he
> counties of Dorset and Somerset. I counted approximately 600 CHAFFIN and
> CHAFIE variants on the 1881 census, and of these, over 300 were in Dorset
and
> around 550 of the 600 were in the South of England.
>
> Has anyone else come across the CHAFIE line?
>
> Regards Jim
> ______________________________

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