Last name: CHILDERS
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CHILDERS : This last name is indexed 34,272 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CHILDERS : English: probably a habitational name from some lost place called Childerhouse from Old English cildra genitive plural of cild ‘child’ + hūs ‘house’. This may have referred to some form of orphanage perhaps run by a religious order or perhaps the first element is to be understood in its later sense as a term of status (see Child).
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