'Chapman3'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Chapman of Whitby

                               
BLG1894 describes the arms of the following family as "Per chevron erm. and gu. a crescent counterchanged, in chief three annulets of the second".
Abel Chapman of Whitby (b 22.10.1694, d 03.10.1777)
m1. (25.01.1720-1) Susanna Lotherington (dau of Geoge Lotherington)
1.+ issue (dsp) - Elizabeth, Mary
m2. (10.01.1727-8) Elizabeth Walker (d 08.11.1735, dau of John Walker of Whitby)
3. John Chapman of Whitby (b 14.11.1732, d 05.01.1822)
  m. Jane Gaskin (d 31.08.1801, dau/coheir of William Gaskin)
  A. Abel Chapman of Stakesby Hall, Yorkshire (b 14.11.1757, d 14.04.1852)
  m. (01.01.1783) Elizabeth Simpson (d 14.04.1838, dau of Wakefield Simpson)
  i. Wakefield Simpson Chapman (b 27.05.1790, d 12.02.1863) had issue (5 daus)
  m. (01.08.1814) Dorothy Simpson (dau of Henry Simpson of Meadow Field House, cousin)
  ii.+ other issue - John (b 24.04.1793, d unm 06.03.1872, JP), Jane (b 26.04.1854)
  B. William Chapman (b 06.09.1761, d 02.03.1840, 3rd son)
  m. (10.10.1782) Elizabeth Anderson (d 1788, dau of Joseph Anderson)
  i. John Chapman (b 09.09.1785, d 12.08.1838) had issue
  m. (22.08.1809) Sarah Alderson
  ii. Hannah Chapman (dsp 06.08.1814)
  m. Benjamin Flounders of Culmington & Yarm
  C. Robert Chapman (b 12.10.1762)
  m. Susannah Bovill (dau of Benjamin Bovill)
  i. Benjamin Chapman (b 10.07.1798, Vicar of Leatherhead in Surrey) had issue
  m. (25.09.1832) Laura Maria Wilson (d 24.04.1871, dau of Jonathan Wilson of Tooting Common)
  ii. Jane Bovill Chapman
  m1. (23.11.1824) Rev. Robert Hopton Smith
m2. (11.11.1841) William Brown
  iii. Susan Chapman
  m1. (14.08.1823) Thomas Pugsley
  m2. (01.05.1838) Rev. John Corser
  D. Thomas Chapman of Elsinore, Denmark (b 12.02.1766, d 26.03.1814)
  m. Ann Cleaver (d 05.01.1860, dau of Edward Cleaver of Nunnington Hall)
  i. John Chapman of Blackheath (b 1797) had issue (1 dau)
  m. (21.09.1831) Elizabeth Haddan (d 19.08.1854)
  ii. Henry Cleaver Chapman of Liverpool (b 03.1.1805, 6th son) had issue
  m. (11.07.1836) Sarah Taylor (dau of James M. Taylor of Westwood)
  iii.+ other issue - Edward (d unm), William (b 29.10.1799), Thomas (b 30.07.1801, d unm), Robert Cleaver (b 12.01.1803), Henry Cleaver of Liverpool (b 03.01.1805), Anne, Jane Frances, Arabella
  E. Jonathan Chapman of Tooting Common, Surrey (b 30.09.1767, d 04.11.1846)
  m. (27.04.1799) Mary Anne Taylor (d 07.05.1868, dau of Robert Taylor of Tolmers)
F. Edward Chapman 'of Whitby' (b 01.09.1769, d 22.01.1836)
  m. (24.04.1791) Martha Holt (dau/coheir of Thomas Holt of Whtby by Esther, dau/coheir of Isaac Stockton of Hawaker Hall)
  i. Thomas Chapman of Whitby (b 21.06.1798, d 08.12.1885, DL) had issue (1 dau)
  m. (24.03.1825) Maria Louisa Hanson (d 12.03.1877, dau of John Hanson of Woodford & Great Bronley Hall)
  ii. John Mcllar Chapman of Usworth Place, co. Durham (b 21.06.1805, d 17.01.1876) had issue
  m. (05.1832) Caroline Sarah Parker (dau of Samuel Walker Parker of Scott House)
  iii. Jane Chapman (d 18.03.1826)
  m. (01.04.1816) William Chapman of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (cousin) @@ below
  iv. Esther Elizabeth Chapman
  m. (06.11.1834) William Clayton Clayton of Stella Hall
  v. Elizabeth Chapman (d 20.03.1851)
  m. (17.10.1822) Robert Taylor (Rector of Clifton Camville)
  vi. Mary Chapman
  m. (05.09.1837) John Chapman (cousin)
  vii.+ other issue - Isabella Margaret (d 19.08.1804), Margaret (d 01.05.1822)
  G. Aaron Chapman of Highbury Park, Middlesex (b 13.09.1777, d 26.06.1848, MP)
  m. (02.06.1796) Elizabeth Barker (d 14.021855, dau of Joseph Barker of Whitby)
  i. Joseph Barker Chapman (b 27.02.179, d 06.06.1873) had issue
  m. (12.06.1832) Louisa Agnes Simpson (dau of Thomas Simpson of Platway)
  ii. John Chapman (b 05.07.1801, d 19.11.1866)
  iii. Edward Henry Chapman of Harringay House, Middlesex (b 16.01.1803, d 19.03.1873, Director of the Bank of England)
m. (28.04.1829) Mary Elizabeth Heslope (dau of Launcelot Heslope of Selly Hall)
  iv. William Robert Chapman (b 21.05.1806, d 1873) had issue
  m. (29.03.1842) Caroline Sarah Fryer (dau of John Fryer of Chatteris)
  H. Elizabeth Chapman (dsp 25.12.838)
  m. Thomas Hall of Brixton Place
  I. Jane Chapman
  m1. (16.04.1794) Ingram Chapman of Whitby
  m2. (151.01.1810) Euseby Cleaver (son of Edward of Nunnington Hall)
  J.+ other issue - John (b 04.07.1759, dsp 03.09.1784), Henry (b 17.03.1764, d unm 23.10.1808), Benjamin (b 23.10.1775, d 09.1779)
4. Esther Chapman
  m. (02.04.1748) Isaac Stockton of Hawsker Hall)
5.+ other issue
m3. (03.04.1745) Hannah Gaskin (d 30.04.1795, dau/coheir of William Gaskin of Whitby)
6. Abel Chapman of Woodford, Essex (b 02.05.1752, d 30.12.1849, of Trinity House)
  m. (13.07.1784) Rebecca Bell (d 17.05.1828, dau of Daniel Bell by Catherine, dau of David Barclay)
  A. Abel Chapman (b 06.06.1789, d 1866, cleric)
  m. (20.09.1818) Anne Hubbersty (dau of J. Hubbersty)
B. William Chapman of Newcastle-on-Tyne (b 28.06.1792, d 24.04.1851, 3rd son) had issue
  m. (01.04.1816) Jane Chapman (d 18.03.1826, dau of Edward Chapman of Whitby) @@ above
  C. Jonathan Chapman (b 13.04.1795) had issue
  m. (10.1819) Agatha Reynolds (d 27.07.1840, dau of Jacob Foster Reynolds by Anne, dau of Robert Barclay of Bury Hill)
  D. Alfred Chapman (b 23.04.1796) had issue
  m. (07.1824) Caroline McNaghten (dau of Sir Francis Workman McNaghten of Dundarave, 1st Bart)
  E. Henry Chapman (b 25.08.1797) had issue
  m. (28.11.1836) Priscilla Susan Wakefiekd (dau of Edward Wakefield)
  F. Frederick Chapman (b 01.02.1801, dsp 1838)
  m. (09.1825) Arabella Godfrey (dau of Peter Godfrey of Old Hall by Arabella, dau of Sir Joshua Rowley of Tendring Park, Bart)
  G. Edward Chapman (b 28.11.1804, d 09.09.1854) had issue
m. (11.1827) Mary Jane Burnett (dau of James Burnett, m2. Eneas M. Macpherson)
  H. Catherine Chapman (d 13.02.1868)
  m. (17.06.1805) Peter Godfrey of Old Hall
  I. Emma Chapman (d 13.02.1855)
  m. (26.04.1814) Abraham Rawlinson of Fakenham
  J. Mary Chapman (d 1826)
  m. (02.1823) George Hillhouse of Combe House
  K.+ other issue - Daniel (b 1790, dsp 1811), Hannah Gaskin (d 22.12.1855)
7. Mary Chapman
  m. (08.03.1769) John Walker of Walls End
8. Hannah Chapman (d 1826)
  m. Bartlett Gurney of Cottishall (son of John of Norwich)
9. Jane Chapman
  m. (06.10.1784) Joseph Gurney of Lakenham Grove (son of John of Norwich)

Main source(s): BLG1894 ('Chapman of Whitby')
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