Chaucer (surname)

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The surname Chaucer is thought to have one of the following derivations:

The first two derivations are ultimately traced to Latin calcearium, "shoemaker". [1]

The surname may refer to:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Alfred Allan Kern, The Ancestry of Chaucer (Google eBook), Lord Baltimore Press, 1906, p. 6
  2. 1 2 Grace E Hadow, Chaucer and His Times, (book description)
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