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Welcome to this site which outlines and genealogy of the Chitty family. It is a significant family from Surrey and later Deal and London which includes multiple relationships and connections with the Clendon family. This sitewas developed for W Ross Clendon, the 12th great grandson of the earliest family member we have found.
There is a companion site: https://clendon.sargisonfamilyhistory.com/
Noth these particular sites are very much work in progress and any input is welcome: just email: allan.sargison@gmail.com
This site is is not the first history of the Chitty family. A Genealogical record of the families of Chitty of Deal, Kent and Clendon was published in 1954 by Erik Chitty, Douglas Ryland Clendon and Mrs R Edwards whose mother was a Chitty. There was a revised edition in 1974.
There are some 800 people currently on this site whose birth name was Chitty. Including spouses would put the number over 1,200. There are some 1,500 families.
This website is a supplement to rather than a replacement to that very thorough piece of work which hopefully enables access to and understanding of the history. In very many ways the history of the Chittys is a microcosm of the rise of the British empire. They became mariners and naval officers, soldiers in India, heroes in Argentina, soldiers and settlers in the USA and Canada, settlers in New Zealand and even nuns in New Zealand.
As a result the surname became the most numerous in the USA which is now clearly the centre of the family.
The site has an underlying genealogical database hosted on TNG. It can be accessed here:
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Allan
“Chittyland” in 2014
“Chitty” is the 75.227th most numerous family name internationally. Clearly the distribution has changed over time -the number of people bearing the Chitty last name increased 553 percent between 1880 and 2014 in the USA against 145 % in England. – https://forebears.io/surnames/chitty
