I have not seen the number 2 origin of our name. It is listed at the web site below. People who belong to Ancestry.com may find some interesting information at this site. Name History and Origin for Chase Chase 1.. English: metonymic occupational name for a huntsman, or rather a nickname for an exceptionally skilled huntsman, from Middle English chase ‘hunt’ (Old French chasse, from chasser ‘to hunt’, Latin captare). 2.. Southern French: topographic name for someone who lived in or by a house, probably the occupier of the most distinguished house in the village, from a southern derivative of Latin casa ‘hut’, ‘cottage’, ‘cabin’. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~geneseeker/

Hi, Ginger Christensen wrote a book about the CHASE/CHACE families that were associated with her line. It is over 400 A4 pages long. In it she mentions the derivation of the name CHASE and CHACE as being French/Norman. However somewhere I have seen a document she produced with a map showing an area in France from whence the main Chase line originated. I am not totally in accord with the "skilled" huntsaman for it fails to mention that the name was most probably derived from the area where Lords of the Manor had reserved hunting rights. I live in Bexleyheath a few miles east of Greenwich. The town got its name from the Heath alongside what is now known to locals as Bexley village. There is a street there called The CHASE which covers a small part of the original CHASE area. I consider the theory that the name is derived from "casa" to be at least "oblique", Keith Hume ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lonnie Chase" <chase1858@direcway.com> To: <CHASE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 3:45 PM Subject: [CHASE-L] Origin of Chase > > I have not seen the number 2 origin of our name. It is listed at the web > site below. People who belong to Ancestry.com may find some interesting > information at this site. > > > Name History and Origin for Chase > > Chase > 1.. English: metonymic occupational name for a huntsman, or rather a > nickname for an exceptionally skilled huntsman, from Middle English chase > 'hunt' (Old French chasse, from chasser 'to hunt', Latin captare). > 2.. Southern French: topographic name for someone who lived in or by a > house, probably the occupier of the most distinguished house in the > village, > from a southern derivative of Latin casa 'hut', 'cottage', 'cabin'. > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~geneseeker/ > > > ==== CHASE Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Digest send a request here > Chase-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word unsubscribe ONLY in the > subject and message box. > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.5 - Release Date: 07/06/2005 > >