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![Show Contents]() Chedere History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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Early Origins of the Chedere familyThe surname Chedere was first found in Somerset where Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district. Britain's oldest complete human skeleton, the Cheddar Man, estimated to be 9,000 years old, was found here in 1903. During the Saxon period, a royal palace was located here. By the 10th century it was a three-time host to the Witenagemot. Cheddar was first listed as Ceodre c. 880. And by the Domesday Book it had evolved to Ceder, meaning "Shear Water", and from the Old English scear and Celtic dwr. Alternatively it could have been derived from the Old English "ceodor" which meant "ravine" as reference to the Cheddar Gorge. 1 As early as 1130 AD, the Cheddar Gorge was recognized as one of the "Four Wonders of England". Early History of the Chedere familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Chedere research. Another 152 words (11 lines of text) covering the years 1377, 1455, 1487, 1510, 1600 and 1982 are included under the topic Early Chedere History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Chedere Spelling VariationsSound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Chedere family name include Chedder, Chadder, Cheder, Cheddre, Cheddar, Chader, Chetter and many more. Early Notables of the Chedere familyMore information is included under the topic Early Chedere Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Migration of the Chedere familyFor political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, Canada, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Chedere surname or a spelling variation of the name include: 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..
- Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
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