Brief Life History of Grace Brown
When Grace Brown Chapman was born on 23 December 1870, in Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States, her father, William Ladd Chapman, was 29 and her mother, Sarah Eleanor Frost, was 24. She married Oliver Cromwell Gould on 23 December 1898, in Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1930 and South Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States for about 10 years. She died on 24 November 1963, at the age of 92, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States.
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- Grace C Gould, "United States 1950 Census"
- Grace Brown Chapman, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Grace B Chapman, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996"
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Name Meaning
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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