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Author: debatecoach
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Steve,
I just now saw your reply to my post. I'm very interested in contacting you as it
seems we are descended from the same family. I live in the States, but Thomas Chaplin, b.
1788 Exhall, father to David, was my 4th Great Grandfather. His son David married Mary Ann
Cattel- they had 6 children. The eldest, Mary Ann, ran off with my 2nd Great Grandfather,
Joseph Thomas, to New Haven, Connecticut, USA in 1879-1880. Joseph was from Coventry and
at the time was an engineer on one of the ships for the Red Star Line plying between
England-Antwerp-Philadelphia. They settled in New Haven and Joseph and Mary Ann had 9
children until her death in 1898 at which time Joseph gave up the sea to raise his
children. I know that some members of my family traveled to the Coventry area in the 1930s
and visited some of the Chaplins, Thomases, and Walkers (descended from Violet Chaplin,
son of David, who married George Walker, b. 1862). Since then my family has had no contact
with any English branch!
, but would be very interested in exhanging information. Thanks,
Robert Thomas
Atlanta, Georgia
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