When William Albert Chapman was born on 10 October 1866, in Leeds and Grenville, Canada West, British North America, his father, John William Chapman, was 32 and his mother, Mary Anne Shutte, was 33. He married Sarah Etta Heron on 11 June 1889, in Prescott, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Elizabethtown Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada for about 20 years. He died in 1947, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 81, and was buried in Gosford Cemetery, North Augusta, Augusta Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
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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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