Inquiries

Charlie Chapman is looking for possible relatives of Abel Chapman who was in Newton County, MS in the mid1800's. He is researching family history and some relatives might have been on Abel's plantation.

I am the Historian for the Town of Colonie, N.Y. www.colonie.org/historian and the Village of Menands, which is one of two villages within the Town of Colonie. Several months ago I was contacted by a fellow named Steve Wiezbicki of Colorado who is in the process of writing a book about N.Y.’s 169th Volunteers during the Civil War. The Chaplain for this regiment was Rev. Edgar T. Chapman who was affiliated with St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Troy, N.Y. Chapman’s affiliation with Troy’s 169th is extremely interesting.
Immediately after the Civil War ended, Chapman was the assistant rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Troy and was responsible for the construction of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in the Village of Green Island, N.Y. just west of Troy. Chapman later built the small church in the Village of Menands called the Free Church of St. Margaret’s, in the late 1880’s. In the 1890’s Chapman had a stained glass window dedicated to the men of Troy’s 169th installed in the Free Church of St. Margaret. A black and white image of this window appears in a publication called the Swartwout Chronicles (attached). The windows were removed from this church and sold in the 1980’s and we have recently located the Chapman 169th window to be in private hands in Schenectady, N.Y.
The Rev. Chapman lived on the Troy Road just south of the present day City of Watervliet. The Troy road is now called Rt. 32 Broadway. Apparently his home burned in the early 20th Century. Chapman is buried in the Hamilton family plot at the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands. Chapman was born in Cooperstown, N.Y. in 1829(?) and died here locally in 1911.
I would very much be interested in corresponding with any descendants of Rev. Edgar T. Chapman, who also had a son by the same name. I am interested in any photos of the family or the house as it stood before the fire. I would hope that all of Chapman’s worldly goods were not consumed by the fire.

I found your website when looking for information on a relative who may have moved to the US and passed away there.


I’m trying to find out any information about the following family member:
Alfred J Chapman
B:abt 1848 in Holt, Wiltshire, England
D:27 Feb 1931 in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA


I do know that a lot of my relatives were employed in the weaving trade and that Lovell was also know for this trade. I can add that we believe Alfred’s parents were, John Chapman and Mary Horler

My grandfather (Ken Chapman) is currently dying of cancer and I thought I'd throw a Hail Mary and ask the association to help me find out who his great great grandfather was. The farthest we can go back is to Ken's great grandfather Madison Chapman (spelling varies)


In 1860 Madison first appears in federal records with the following household in the 1860 Jackson Co. MO census.
Madison Chapman 44, Sally Chapman 30, Henry Chapman 10, Anna Chapman 8, Nancy J Chapman 4, Cread Chapman 2, Thomas Chapman 2/12


In 1870 he was in the same county and his household looked like this:
M Chapman 55, Sarah Chapman 40, George H Chapman 21, Anna Chapman 17, Nancy Chapman 15, Cread Chapman 12, Thomas Chapman 10, Marrison Chapman 7, Jesse Chapman 5, Susan Chapman 4, Dora B Chapman 1


His family in 1880 was as follows:
Maddison Chapman 66, Sarah Chapman 40, Thomas Chapman 21, Maddison Chapman 17, Jesse Chapman 15, Susan A. Chapman 13
Dora Chapman 11, Myra Chapman 8
In that Census he was personally described as:
Birth Year: abt 1814, Birthplace: Kentucky, Home in 1880: Blue Springs, Jackson, Missouri, Race: White, Gender: Male, Relation to Head of House: Self (Head), Marital Status: Married, Spouse's Name: Sarah Chapman, Father's Birthplace: Virginia, Mother's Birthplace: Virginia


This is consistent with all the other census he shows up in (all in Jackson County) and the 1900 census has little to add, Madison (called Madi in 1900) now lives alone with his wife Sarah and daughter Elmyra. It does mention Madison got married in 1854.


We also know: That Madison's son's name was Creed not Cread, that Madison likely had a brother named Creed who served in the seminole wars and died in 1854 in Jackson Co. MO, that Madison's wife Sarah Noland (spelling varies) was first married to Robert Cathey, that Madison likely had a wife before Sarah, that was haven't found any record of Madison serving in the military, and that Madison was a farmer at some point.


We have stories to of course but we'd like to know if our Madison sounds like the son of someone in the pedigree of a Chapman association member.


Oh and here's his grave site (do note the birth year is wrong): http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?
page=gr&GSln=chapman&GSfn=madison&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=64549836&df=all&