Brief Life History of Robert
When Robert Chambers Sr was born about 1715, in Middlesex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, his father, John Chambers Sr., was 44 and his mother, Mary Browning, was 38. He had at least 4 sons and 2 daughters with Elizabeth Hammell. He died on 13 June 1774, in Mercer, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 60.
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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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