Släkthistoria för Chessell
Chessell Vad efternamn betyder
either from Chesthill a lost place in Moreton Say and Stoke upon Tern (Shrops) or from Chessell Freshwater (IoW). Both place-names are spelled as Chesthull in medieval records but the Shrops name is thought to refer to a hill (Old English hyll) where parish boundaries were disputed (the first element is Old English ceast ‘strife contention’) whereas the IoW name refers to a hill where burial chests or coffins were found (the first element is Old English cest ‘chest’) probably referring to the 6th-century pagan cemetery on Chessell Down.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
