Chater One-Name Study

Chater
One-Name Study

Topics

About the Chater One-Name Study
Variants
Origin of the surname
Distribution of the name
Data
Links
Contact Details

About the Chater One-Name Study

My name is Sue and my maiden name was Chater.

I became interested in my family tree/genealogy at the age of 15. I remember asking my mom about the family and then drew a little descendant tree on a scrap of paper, and that was as far as I got!

Then nearly 9 years ago I volunteered to join a local school committee and to assist me with the agenda's and minutes , we purchased the families first computer and my first family tree programme.

I found out my little scrap of paper and entered the details that I had recorded so many years before.

For some years, I researched other family lines and then decided to concentrate on my Chater side.

As I began trawling through the birth, death and marriage registers for my Chater's, I realised that Chater was not a very common name and that there weren't many Chater's on each index. So I then decided to try and record all the Chater's for England and then go world-wide.

And so I began and for the last 5 years I have been slowly collecting Chater information and now have over 12,000 individuals in my research file.

Some information has been supplied by other researchers with Chater links in their own lines.

My research is very much a work in progress and I am continually adding details to my research file.

I have only recently become a Member of the Guild of One Name Studies and this has helped immensly with my research.

If you would like information on the Chater name, please contact me.

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Variants

Primarily I am interested in the surname Chater.

Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to 'develop' often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Eventually, I will progress onto the variants of Chaytor, Chayter or Chaters.

Variations in the idiom of the spelling includes Cater, Cator, Chatees, Chaytor

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Origin of the surname

This interesting surname of English origin is an occupational name for the buyer of provisions for a large household.

It is derived from the Anglo Norman French 'acatour' meaning 'a buyer for a house'.

The name dates back to the early 13th Century, (see below). Further recordings include Robert le Achatour (1229) 'The Rolls of the Abbey of Ramsey, Cambridgeshire'. Elias le Katur (1271) 'The Court Rolls of the Abbey of Ramsey and of the Honox of Clare, Cambridgeshire'.

The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William le Chatur, which was dated 1220, Pipe Rolls of Bedfordshire, during the reign of King Henry 111, 'The Frenchman', 1216 - 1272.

This is one reported origin from a website search. I will need to do some more research into the origin of the name Chater.

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Distribution of the name

From 1837-1849 there were 306 occurances of Chater births registered.

Where instances were more than 10 incidences in this period produced the following statistics:

22.0% - Warwickshire

13.0% - Northamptonshire

9.0% - Northumberland

7.0% - Worcestershire

4.5% - Leicestershire

3.5% - Middlesex

3.2% - Leicestershire

3% - Surrey

There were large pockets of Chater's in Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Northumberland and Worcestershire - primarily in Southam, Rugby, Daventry, Tynemouth and Dudley areas respectively.

As I collate more information I will update this section accordingly.

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Data

Birth Indexes for England from 1837-2004

Marriage Indexes for England from 1837-2004

Death Indexes for England from 1837-2004

Some Census records for England covering 1841,1851,1861,1871,1881,1891 and 1901

Some Birth, Marriage and Death records from the IGI.

Some of the registration indexes are held in the archive on this site.

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Links

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com

http://www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk

http://www.ancestry.co.uk

http://www.familysearch.org

http://www.halesowenroots.com/

http://www.rootschat.com/

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/index.php

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Contact details

For further information, contact:

Mrs Susan Potter
E-mail: