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Surnames: Chaffee, Chaffey
Classification: Query
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Hi Terry,
I have had really good response from some records offices, family history soc and
muncipalities that hold records. If you just have them search for one person within
reasonable time in one place. I haven't had any success in finding the birth place and
parents of my Joseph Chaffey except one in Dorchester, Dorset, England. I hsve no way of
knowing if it is him. He doesn't have the bunch of brothers that William H. lists in
his book. LDS had a film that had all six of them in sequential order but they had been
submitted with nothing more than they abt. birthdates and he actually submitted the same
person in three counties, so the county he put them under was also iffie. Ah, yes, Amos
Pierre Fordham. I baptisms of the dead or whatever that is. He submitted bunches of
Chaffees and Chaffys to three different temples in Utah. SL, Manti and Logan. He did this
in 1925-28. He was Mormon ancestor of a bigamist. I have to stop now because whenever I
talk about this man my BP goes to !
high.
My Joseph Chaffey ended up in Prince Edward Island, Canada, having come from England. He
could have had relatives and siblings who went to New England or America, but I don't
know? He was the only one in PEI, but there were and still are a bunch in Newfoundland.
Later, Helen