Släkthistoria för Belchamber
Belchamber Vad efternamn betyder
presumably for the keeper of a bellchamber the room where bells were hung in a bell tower or in a belfry from Middle English (Old English) belle ‘bell’ + Middle English (Old French) chambre ‘room’. However the compound is not recorded in OED before 1848. A keeper of a bellchamber may also have been the bell ringer.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
