Brief Life History of William
When William Chappell was born on 10 June 1762, in Albemarle Parish, Sussex, Virginia, United States, his father, James Chappell Jr, was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth Briggs, was 39. He died in 1762, in Virginia, United States, at the age of 0.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived near a chapel, from Middle English chapel(l)e ‘chapel’, via Old French, from Late Latin capella, originally a diminutive of capa ‘hood, cloak’, but later transferred to the sense ‘chapel, sanctuary’, with reference to the shrine at Tours where the cloak of Saint Martin was preserved as a relic.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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