248 Global CHALLONER Family Members

CHALLONER Family History

This unusual surname is of early medieval English origin, and is an occupational name for a maker or seller of blankets. The derivation is from the Middle English "chaloun", a blanket, coverlet for a bed, with the addition of the agent suffix "-er" (one who does or works with). The articles were so named from being first and most notably produced in the French town of Chalons-sur-Marne, itself so called from a Gaulish tribe referred to in Latin sources as "Catalauni", who were the earliest recorded inhabitants of the place. Job descriptive surnames originally denoted the actual occupation of the namebearer, and later became hereditary...