Hi, everyone. I am finally going cyber with my search and this is my first
post to the list.
I have an unusual situation (well knowing what you all have been through
maybe not that unusual):
My gg grandmother, Julia CHAPMAN WILBUR, was born in Worcester, Otsego
County, NY in April 1838. Her death record indicates her father was Cyrus
CHAPMAN.
Census material indicates that her father was born in Connecticut. Given
the time frame, I checked the Connecticut birth records and found only one
Cyrus CHAPMAN born about the right time (March 1797)...who lived...and moved
when he was 6 years old, with his father Jonas and family to Knox, Albany
County, NY. Nothing was heard of the Jonas, Cyrus...and the rather large
CHAPMAN family other than after they left North Stonington about 1803 (Cyrus
being one of seven children at the time), Jonas and his wife, Susannah
PEABODY, had six more children.
New Work State didn't keep records before 1880. I haven't been able to find
Cyrus death record or Julia's birth record. I want to be able to link Cyrus
from North Stonington to Julia's father Cyrus of Worcester but I have no
documents...and there was one other Cyrus in the New York census at that
time, so although I am pretty sure of the link, I can't be positive.
Does anybody have any information on this CHAPMAN clan? This is a list of
Jonas CHAPMAN's children:
1 Jonas CHAPMAN 1768 - 1836 (son of Andrew, son of John - the immigrant
born 1680 in Oxfordshire Eng.)
. +Susannah PEABODY 1770 -
........ 2 Sally CHAPMAN 1792 -
........ 2 Jonas CHAPMAN 1795 -
........ 2 Cyrus CHAPMAN 1797 -
........ 2 Thomas CHAPMAN 1798 -
........ 2 Clarissa CHAPMAN 1799 -
........ 2 Lavinia CHAPMAN 1801 -
........ 2 Roxanna CHAPMAN 1802 -
........ 2 Erastus CHAPMAN
........ 2 Eldridge CHAPMAN
........ 2 Albert CHAPMAN
........ 2 Daniel CHAPMAN
........ 2 Thaddeus CHAPMAN
........ 2 Cordelia CHAPMAN
Thanks for your help...
John Dwyer
Dillon-Dwyer(a)prodigy.net