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Surnames: Chaffee, Chaffey, Fordham
Classification: Query
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Have you tried looking under LDS records for Amos Pierre Fordham or Annie Chaffee.
Annie was one of several wives of a Mormon bigamist. Amos was one of their children
(perhaps). Amos, in trying to learn about Annie entered a bunch of Chaffees and Chaffeys
into the Mormon records in three different Temples in Utah in 1925-28.
He entered them as a "relative" in 'baptisms of the dead' and
consequently blocked anyone learning anything else about those persons. The films just
lead back to Amos Pierre Fordham.
Since you have the name Amos Chaffee, he may have used both Fordham and his mother's
name. Legally the bigamist weren't married anyway.
Sorry, I can't remember the dates to look under to research his Ancestor Annie
Chaffee.???
Happy hunting,
Helen