When Royal Chastain Sr was born in 1792, in South Carolina, United States, his father, Rev James Chastain, was 52 and his mother, Marian Robinson, was 48. He married Nancy Hudson in 1814, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Bledsoe, Tennessee, United States in 1850. He died in 1865, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 73.
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French:
(southern): variant of Chastang .
nickname from Old French chastain ‘chestnut’ (a nut), possibly for someone with chestnut-colored hair. Compare Chasteen , Chesteen , Chastine , and Shasteen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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