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There
were
several
separate
Chapple
families
living
in
Devon
during
the
16th
to
19th
centuries.
Our
interest
is
in
the
east
Devon
family
originally
from
the
Dalwood
and
Colyton
areas
-
the
descendants
of
John
and
Elizabeth
Chapple
-
who
over
the
centuries
found
their
way
to
London,
Leeds,
Glamorgan,
Canada
and
New
Zealand.
The
Oxford
Dictionary
of
Family
Names
describe
it
as
a
locative
name
from
the
Middle
English/Old
French
Chapele
denoting
either
someone
who lived near, or served at, a chapel.
Variations
in
the
spelling
of
the
are
found
in
the
records
-
one
of
them
as
late
as
the
1901
England
and
Wales
census.
For
consistency,
the
most
common
useage
-
Chapple
-
has
been
quoted
throughout
the
19
pages
of
information
about
them
on
the
site.
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Steve and Pauline Jones’ Family History
If you don’t know where you came from,
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The Chapple Family of Dalwood, Devon