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Author: ralphealchatwood33
Surnames: chatwood
Classification: queries
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hi amanda my name is ralpheal chatwood,i live in marianna arkansas.my grandfather name was frank chatwood but i am not sure if he is the same person, but i am trying to find out who was his father,so i we match i will be more than happy and if we donot i hope the best to you to finding what you need to know..
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Hello Listers
In 2002, the following message was posted to the list and it is being posted again because my addresses have changed. It is my hope that in the interim information has been discovered that will relate to a 'Captain' Cheatwood and William (Billy) Dempster.
Cheers!
Eleanore Dempster
Osoyoos, BC, Canada
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Posted 26 May 2002
I received this quite a while ago from this lady and I do not have any of
information she needs. Maybe one of you can help her.
GmomDistad(a)aol.com
My interest is with Charles and Marion Cheatwood, who may have been
business contacts and/or friends of my grandfather-in-law William Arnold
DEMPSTER. My mother-in-law made a note at some point in the past that
reads "Capt. Chetwood and Bill Dempster sold out coal business to a Capt.
Woodward - lost money as it was in Captain name - which later business
became Evans Coleman & Evans." This coal business was in Vancouver,
B.C., about 1889, and may have been operating as a brokerage firm
bringing coal by boat from Nanaimo on Vancouver Island to the docks in
Vancouver. The Capt. Chetwood may have been the boat partner based in
Nanaimo, and Bill Dempster the office partner in Vancouver. Dempster is
listed in the 1889-91 Vancouver directories but Chetwood is not.
A web search of Vancouver and Provincial archives returned the name
Cheatwood, but not Chetwood.
Subsequent research produced photocopies of the marriage registration of
Charles Henry Cheatwood and Sarah Ann Wilkinson; the birth registration
of their daughter Mirza Isabella Wilkinson Cheatwood and the death
registration of another child; and the death registration of Marion
Cheatwood. I will gladly send you copies of these records by post, or
transcripts by e-mail, whichever you wish.
My question to you is whether or not the name DEMPSTER has appeared in
your travels through your Cheatwood research. I don't know if one of the
brothers is the "Capt. Chetwood" referred to in my mother-in-law's note,
but there are several coincidences which give me hope. The name, of
course, and the fact that Charles was employed as a miner in Nanaimo,
B.C., when he got married in 1898. Nanaimo was the centre of the coal
mining industry in B.C. at that time, so there is a coal connection.
Charles and Bill Dempster were almost the same age; Charles being three
years older. When Marion died in 1926, his sister-in-law Mrs. C.
Cheatwood (wife of Charles, I assume) was the informant named on his
death registration. Her address was Seattle, Wash. Bill Dempster moved
to Seattle in 1900 and died there in 1942. Another coincidence.
Another question: do you have any indication that one of the brothers
could have been a captain?
I hope some of this is new to you, and that one of your Cheatwoods will
prove to be the Captain Chetwood I am searching for. I look forward to
your reply.
Cheers!
Eleanore Dempster
Mission, B.C., Canada (2013 - of Osoyoos, BC)