When George Gilbert Chapman was born in 1864, in Connecticut, United States, his father, Gilbert Austin Chapman, was 29 and his mother, Louisa J or M Pease, was 20. He married Ellen M Carnall on 5 October 1890, in Shelburne, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1949 and Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States in 1950.
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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.
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