Brief Life History of Elizabeth
Elizabeth Chambers was born about 1692, in Middlesex, New Jersey, British Colonial America. She married John Van Hamel about 1713, in Mansfield Township, Burlington, New Jersey, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died before 1761.
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- Eliz. in entry for Catharine Hamel, "New Jersey, Births and Christenings, 1660-1980"
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Name Meaning
English:
from Middle English chaumbre ‘room (in a house); reception room in a palace or official building’ (Old French chambre). It is identical in implied function with the Chamberlain , which denoted an official: to pay in cameram was to pay into the exchequer, of which the camerarius or chamberer was in charge. The surname also applied to clerks employed there. As the office of Chamberlain rose in the social scale, this term remained reserved for more humble servants of the bedchamber or private quarters.
(of Norman origin): habitational name from Les Chambres, Manche (France).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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