When Delos Chafa was born in 1848, in Lorraine, Jefferson, New York, United States, his father, Isaac W Chafa, was 44 and his mother, Julia Alvira Warriner, was 36.
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Indian (Punjab): Arora and Sikh name of unexplained etymology.
English (West Midlands): variant of Chaney .
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