Last name: CHALK

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CHALK : This last name is indexed 27,628 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CHALK : English (Hampshire and Wiltshire): habitational name from Bower Chalke or Broad Chalke (Wiltshire) or Chalk (Kent) or occasionally a topographic name from residence on or near a chalk down from Old English cealc ‘chalk’ here ‘chalky soil’ or an Old English cealce ‘chalk down’.
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