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Hi Folks,
Greetings from Toronto, Canada.
My ancestor, James CHISMAN, senior, [the name Cheesman was corrected to
Chisman in the baptismal register] son of William CHISMAN and Mary INGRAM,
was born approximately 1774, baptized in East Knoyle in 1775. In 1808, in
East Knoyle church, he married Martha SANGER; Martha had been baptized in
1781, a daughter of William SANGER and Elizabeth HARWOOD, of East Knoyle;
James senior was a yeoman farmer of East Knoyle; James died in 1844, aged
70 and was buried in East Knoyle; Martha died in 1839, aged 58 years and
was buried in East Knoyle; m.i. in East Knoyle churchyard for James and
Martha; James senior and Martha had issue:
1. William CHISMAN, baptized in East Knoyle in 1810; William was
enumerated in the East Knoyle 1841 census as a farmer and his father James
as an independent man; in 1842, in Tisbury district, he married Hannah
BROTHERS, who was born in Donhead St. Mary, about 1815; in the 1851 census
for Charlton Tything, William CHEESEMAN 41 was a farmer of 646 acres in
Standlynch, Wilts; in the 1861 census, William 51 was a farmer of 815 acres
in Upavon; for the 1871 census, William 61, widower, was a farmer in Upavon
Farm House; William's death, aged 63, was registered in Pewsey district in
1873; William and Hannah had issue.
2. John CHISMAN, baptized in East Knoyle in 1811; in 1837, in St. Denys,
Warminster (IGI submitted), John married Louisa KNIGHT, who had been born,
about 1811, in Donhead St. Mary, Wilts (I.G.I. extracted); Louisa was a
daughter of John Budden KNIGHT. John and Louisa farmed in Stockton and,
from the late 1840s, in Codford St. Peter, Wilts; in the 1851 census in
Codford St. Peter, John Chesman 39 was farming 950 acres; in the 1861
census, John Chisman 50 was a farmer of 1,500 acres in Codford St. Peter;
in the 1871 census, John 60 was a farmer of 960 acres in Codford St. Peter.
John, aged 64, was buried in Codford St. Peter in 1875; Louisa died, aged
75, in 1886, in Warminster district; John and Louisa had issue.
3. Elizabeth CHISMAN, baptized in East Knoyle in 1813; buried in East
Knoyle on April 26th., 1833, aged 20; m.i. in East Knoyle churchyard; no
issue.
4. James CHISMAN, junior, baptized in East Knoyle in 1816; in 1843, in
West Knoyle church, he married Ann RUMSEY of that parish. James junior was
a yeoman farmer of 520 acres in Lushill, near Castle Eaton (census of 1851);
in the census of 1861, James 42 was a farmer in Pewsey; lastly, James was a
farmer of 1,103 acres in Winterborne Bassett (census of 1871), all in
Wiltshire. James was buried (m.i.) in Winterborne Bassett on May 21st.,
1876, aged 60; Ann, a widow, was buried in St. Michael's church, Wilsford,
Wilts, (m.i.) on May 2nd., 1883, aged 63; James junior and Ann had issue.
I seek to make contact with any researcher or relation of this CHISMAN
family.
Best wishes.
Peter Ferreira.