Some months ago I downloaded a file called <>.
Now, I do not know where I found the file. This file shows Chicken as the
English equivalent of Challion. This is questionable at best, and no support
has been found in any French dictionary of which we are aware. I am
wondering if this naming has been corrected in a later Serre' file.

The Chicken family were not French but English, and I suspect that Col.
George Chicken {senior], the progenitor of the family in SC, was from the
large Chicken families who were in either Northumberland or Durham in the
1400s or earlier. It is certainly a possibility that the name <> is
an anglization of a French name before that, perhaps Norman. However, this
has not been shown.

The Chicken family of SC named a large number of their daughters ,
so care must be exercised to identify each one. As examples, Catherine
Chicken, the daughter of Col.George Chicken Senior, married Noah Serre'
junior, the grandson of Claude. Catherine Chicken, a granddaighter of George
Senior married Andrew Dewees. Catherine Chicken, the only known child of
George Chicken Junior and his second wife, Lydia Child, married Benjamin
Simons, the younger. Lydia Child Chicken married Elias Ball, junior or II,
if I have the right Elias Ball, after George Chicken's death. 

I do not see a name and address for the author in this file, and I would
very much like to corresponded with the author.

Has anyone identified the Challion family?

Ed T of PGH [the senior ]

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