When Benjamin Chappell was born in 1581, in Wookey, Somerset, England, his father, Anthony Chappell, was 38 and his mother, Agnes Godwin, was 38.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a chapel, from Middle English chapel(l)e ‘chapel’, via Old French, from Late Latin capella, originally a diminutive of capa ‘hood, cloak’, but later transferred to the sense ‘chapel, sanctuary’, with reference to the shrine at Tours where the cloak of Saint Martin was preserved as a relic.
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