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To All Chettle Families Wherever You Are
As this Chettle Family History continues to gather momentum and more and more Chettle folk contact me it is becoming apparent that over the centuries that as a Chettle moved onto a different region of the Country then another Chettle would soon follow.
Also, we now have the benefit of matching DNA results through AncestryDNA and those results can be uploaded onto other sites such as 23 & Me, My Heritage.com and FamilyTree DNA.com. In doing this I have connected with other Chettle’s and descendants from Chettle’s from all over the world The DNA results have also shown that it is highly likely that the Chettle’s originated in Norway and not Denmark as previously thought.
Kettil or Kjetil in Norwegian as Schettel and it is likely there were Nowegians and the Danes that populated Danelaw. We are clearly Viking!
In this family history the earliest recorded Chettle in Leicester is Chetell the Moneyer also known as Chitell. We have in our possession a Henry 1 Penny that was minted and hammered out by Chetell the Moneyer in Leicester between 1100 and 1135.
We then have a gap to the recorded Chettle Family in Leicester that starts in 1345 with a Will Ketyl and we know that the family had origins in Ab Kettleby on the Leicester, Nottingham border.
The names below found in early Leicester records and is our probable line:
1345 - Will Ketyl
1364 - Will de Ketilby (meaning “of Kettleby”)
1460 - Will Kettleby
1513 - Robert Ketell
1557 - Richard Chetelle
1563 - Raphe Chetell
1591 - Ralph Chetell (Lord Mayor of Leicester)
1604 - Thomas Chettle (Lord Mayor of Leicester)
1674 - Robert Chettle
Over the years of compiling this family tree we have often wondered why there could be such a prominent lineage of Chettle’s in Leicester and that they were obviously connected to Chettle families residing in Owthorpe, Melton Mowbray and Welby and could there be a connection between the Chettle Family that resided in and around Bingham and in the main were farmers and land owners.
We have now discovered that Raphe Chettle who Lord Mayor of Leicester in 1591 held considerable land at Hoothorpe (Owthorpe) and that he paid taxes on this land, a “lay subsidy” in 1610 and 1611. The article below was printed in the Leicester journal on Friday December 2nd 1881 under an article titled Lay Subsidies for the County of Leicestershire Part 2 and the article seems to be part of a larger article concerning the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society.
 So the likelihood is that that the Chettle Family that resided at Bingham is related to our own and the link is probably from centuries ago. We have discovered that some of the Chettle Family from Bingham moved to Birmingham in the mid 1800’s and that some of our own Chettle Family were also in the same area of Birmingham at the same time.
We also know that the bulk of the Chettle Family that reside in Northamptonshire are descended from Thomas Chettle born 1776 in Leicester and that there are connections and coincidences with the Chettle Families that are seen in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Wales, Wiltshire and Kent.
So the search goes on to discover the missing links that will prove that the Chettle Family Worldwide is connected.
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