I found an 1882 Revision List (census) entry from the Russian Empire for a distant branch of my family. There were two names in the family that I’ve never seen before. The father was a son of a man named Chaila (Чаила) and he named his first son after his father, with a slightly different spelling, Chalyy (Чалый). That father also had a daughter Shasya (Шася).
Has anyone heard of the names Chaila/Chalyy and Shasya and can tell me where they come from?
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