Harold John Chapman

Brief Life History of Harold John

Harold John Chapman was born on 19 December 1916, in Wellington, New Zealand as the son of Albert Chapman or Frederick Albert Thatcher and Jessie May Codlin. He died on 2 May 1992, in Auckland, New Zealand, at the age of 75, and was buried in Waikumete Cemetery & Crematorium, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand.

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Family Time Line

Albert Chapman or Frederick Albert Thatcher
Jessie May Codlin
1888–1953
Harold John Chapman
1916–1992
Albert Delville Chapman
1920–2004
Rima Jewell Chapman
1933–2004

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  • Legacy NFS Source: Harold John Chapman - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: Harold John Chapman
  • Harold John Chapman, "Find a Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1921

On 1 November 1921, Waikumete was renamed Glen Eden, when the area was formed into a town district. One of the reasons why the name changed was that the name Waikumete had become closely associated with the cemetery. The new name referenced the central Auckland suburb of Mount Eden, as well as the many valleys (glens) in the suburb. After the area was formed into a town district, the area boomed as a working class neighbourhood. Glen Eden is a suburb of West Auckland, New Zealand, located at the foothills of Waitākere Ranges.

1923 · New Zealand's Claim to Antartica

The Ross Dependency is a New Zealand dependency located on the Antarctician Continent. It is the only settlement on the Antartica that is claimed by a sovereign nation. New Zealand still owns claim even after the Antarctic Treaty that was signed in 1959 by 11 other nations. 

1939

WWII. Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II.

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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