Charlet History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Charlet family

The surname Charlet was first found in Normandy (French: Normandie), the former Duchy of Normandy.

Early History of the Charlet family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Charlet research. Another 72 words (5 lines of text) covering the years 1240, 1431, 1566, 1630, 1686, 1720, 1752, 1753, 1757 and 1792 are included under the topic Early Charlet History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Charlet Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Charle, Charles, Charlon, Carle, Carlo, Charlet, Charléty, Charlin, Charlot, Charlotte, Charley, Charlemagne, Charlemaine, Charlemont and many more.

Early Notables of the Charlet family

Notable amongst the family in this period was

Georges Charlet was a poet in 1630
Etienne Charlet was general at Dijon in 1752
Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet, born in Paris in 1792, studied at the Napoleon school and entered into the town council of Paris

Charlet Ranking

In France, the name Charlet is the 731^st most popular surname with an estimated 6,689 people with that name. 1

Charlet migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Charlet Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Margar Charlet, aged 17, who landed in New York in 1854 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Charlet (post 1700) +

Étienne Charlet, French Divisional General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789 to 1815 3
René Charlet (b. 1903), French bobsledder at the 1936 and 1948 Winter Olympics
Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792-1845), French designer and painter
José Charlet (1916-1993), French architect, painter, sculptor, and professor
Armand Charlet (1900-1975), French mountaineer and mountain guide
Nicolas Toussaint Charlet (1792-1845), French painter and engraver
Frantz Charlet (1862-1928), Belgian painter, etcher, and lithographer
Valentine Blanche Charlet MBE (1898-1985), English member of the Women's Transport Service with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II

Citations +

http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815. (Retrieved 2015, February 12) Étienne Charlet. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html