Dear Butch:
As you probably know, Merrickville is a pretty little historic town on the
Rideau Canal system (built 1832 - 36?), about 25 miles south of Ottawa.
There were no other Chapman families in the area that I am aware of.
Gerard B Chapman, who migrated from Vermont about 1798 to a St. Lawrence
River farm near Montreal, and then Ottawa/Hull in 1801, had 2 sons, ORLANDO
[who had 3 daughters and 1 unmarried son, Orlando Jr, 1837 -1869, who died
in the Kondike Gold Rush)], and CHESTER. He also had four daughters,
including _?__, Olive, Susanah, and Ann. [In 1814, he gave up pilotting logs
down the Ottawa and St.Lawrence Rivers and started to farm, moving his
family to "Fallowfield" on the Ontario side of the Ottawa River].
I do not know who Gerard B. Chapman (c. 1770 - 1830?) married but his son
CHESTER (1806 - ? ) married Sarah Moore (a lumber baron's daughter from
Bytown / Ottawa). They lived in "Fallowfield", a small hamlet about 10
miles south of Ottawa, and about 5 miles north of Richmond, [close to where
the Duke of Richmond died in his father's (Gerard B.) barn in 1819].
CHESTER and SARAH MOORE had several children: Laurie (1831 - ), Chester Jr.
(1831 - ), Maria (1832 -), MILO (1836 -1904),David Benjamin (1838 -),
Elizabeth (1840 -), John (1841 - ), Isaac (1843 -), James (1845 -), Gerard
Jr. ( 1847 -), Orlando (1849 -), and Thomas (1851 -). It is conceivable
that your ggfather James was a child of one of the above male descendants of
Chester and Sarah Moore.
Of this family, I know that Chester Jr. (1631 -?) married a Charlotte Moore
(1838 - ?) and had only one child that I am aware of, Napoleon Charles
Henry. MILO (1839 -1904) married a Catherine Parks (1844-1930, thru whom I
am descended). His brother, DAVID BENJAMIN, married a Jerusha Dixon (1847 -
?), and I have no record of their off-spring. Similarily, I have no record
of who any of the other brothers from that family married or who their
children were, - ie. from whom your James is probably descended).
However, one of MILO and Catherine Parks children, Isaiah "Ike" Chapman
moved to N. Dakota , and married "Minnie" Krantz,(1877 - 1959), and had 2
daughters, Blanche (1907 - c.1975, of Ottawa) and Thelma (1909 - ?). Thelma
married a Ray Johnson and I think she stayed in N. Dakota. It is quite
conceivable that Isaiah (Ike) may have been attracted to N. Dakota because
one of his uncles (mentioned above) may have moved there first.
As you can see, that accouts for all of the male Chapmans from that
generation.
I hope this is helpful,
Art Pattison
In answer to:
I am a Jackson who's grandmother was a Chapman ,,,, My GGFather was James
Chapman that was born in Merrickville Ontario,(near Ottawa) in 1864. . . .
some of the Chapmans ended up in North Dakota.
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