When Sarah Ann Chapman was born on 5 November 1819, in Hart, Kentucky, United States, her father, William Chapman, Sr., was 46 and her mother, Mary Ann Bird, was 39. She married George Francis Locke on 27 June 1837, in Barren, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Justice Precinct 2, Parker, Texas, United States in 1880. She died on 5 March 1908, in Parker, Texas, United States, at the age of 88.
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English: occupational name for a merchant or trader, Middle English chap(pe)man, chepman, Old English cēapmann, cēpemann, a compound of cēap ‘barter, bargain, price, property’ + mann ‘man’.
Jewish: adopted probably for a like-sounding or like-meaning name in some other European language; see for example Kaufman .
History: This name was brought independently to North America from England by numerous different bearers from the 17th century onward. John Chapmen (sic) was one of the free planters who assented to the ‘Fundamental Agreement’ of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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