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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a maker or seller of blankets, from an agent derivative of Middle English chaloun ‘blanket’, ‘coverlet’. The articles were named from being produced in Châlons-sur-Marne, once the seat of a Gaulish tribe recorded in Latin sources as Catalauni.

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