Chaucer (surname)

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

* The name Chaucer frequently occurs in the early Letter Books and in French language of the time it meant "shoemaker", which meaning is also recorded in the "Glossary of Anglo-Norman and Early English Words".[1]
* From French 'chaussier', 'chaucier', a hosier.[2][1]
* It may have arisen from 'chaufecire', 'chafewax', i.e. a clerk of the court of Chancery whose duty consisted in affixing seals to royal signature.[1][2] However, Kern doubted this derivation, since the surname 'Chaucer' was too common.[1]

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

The surname may refer to:

* Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk
* Chaucer Elliott (1879-1913), Canadian sportsman
* Geoffrey Chaucer, "Father of English literature"
* Thomas Chaucer (c. 1367 – 1434), Speaker of the English House of Commons

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e Alfred Allan Kern, The Ancestry of Chaucer (Google eBook), Lord Baltimore Press, 1906, p. 6
2. ^ a b Grace E. Hadow, Chaucer and His Times, (book description)

Surname list

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Surnames associated with the occupations of cobbler / shoemaker / cordwainer

Celtic|

* Quéré
* Gracie, Grassie, Grassick

Germanic|

* DeSutter/De Sutter, DeZuter, DeZutter, De Zutter
* Scheemaeckers, Schoenmaker, Schoenmakers
* Schumacher, Schuhmacher, Schuhmann, Schumaker, Schoemaker, Schoeman, Schoomaker, Schuster, Shoemark, Schumann, Shumaker, Shoemaker,Shuster, Shuman, Shumann,
* Stiefel, Stiefl, Stifel

Romance|

* Surnames ultimately from Latin "sutor": Suter, Sutter, Souter, Sauter, Sutar, Soutar, Souttar

* Sutor
* De Soto, DeSoto, de Soto, Desoto
* Scarpa, Scarponi, Calzolaro, Callegari, Calligaris, Calegari, Chaucer, Zangari

* Cordonnier, Courvoisier, Corvaisier, Le Sueur, Sabaté , Sabater Sabatier
* Crispino
* Sapateiro, Zapatero

* borrowings from Slavic: Ciubotaru, Ciubotariu

Slavic|

* Chebotar, Chebotaryov (Tschebotarioff), Chebotarenko
* Cizmar/Čizmar/Čižmár/Čižman
* Łatacz
* Sapozhnikov
* Shvets, Shevchenko, Shevchuk, Shevtsov, Shautsov, Švec, Ševčík (Sevcik, Shevchik), Szewczyk, Sheuchyk
* Šuštar (from Schuster)
* Szydło
* Kopitar

Other|

* from סנדלר; "sandal-maker": HaSandlar, Sandler / Sendler, Skujenieks
* Suutari
* Kingsepp
* Varga
* Csizmadia

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