The surname Kelk was first found in Lincolnshire "on the estate of Kelke, [which] was owned by a family so designated from it. " 1 Great Kelk and Little Kelk are found in the East Riding of Yorkshire and date back to the Domesday Book of 1086 where they were collectively known as Chelche. 2 Hence, conjecturally, the surname is descended from the tenant of the lands of Barnaby le Wold, held by Earl Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester who was recorded in the Domesday Book.
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Early History of the Kelk family
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Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: the name represented in many forms and recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, the Carolinas, and to the islands..
Contemporary Notables of the name Kelk (post 1700)
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Jackie Kelk (1921-2002), American actor, well known for his role as Homer Brown in the television series 'The Aldrich Family'
Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893-1970), British chemist who introduced the concepts such as nucleophile, electrophile, inductive and resonance effects, co-developer of Cahn-Ingold-Prelog priority rules
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