Birth: July-September 1875 Letheringsett, Norfolk, UK
Father: James Chapman 1840-1881
Mother: Harriett Dewing Edwards [Neal (Neale)] 1845-1900
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 25 December 1899 Hindolveston, Norfolk, UK
Wife: Edith Matilda Todd Wright 1875-1962
Death: January-March 1945 Fakenham, Norfolk, UK
By Edith
Albert Austin Chapman 1899-1964
James William Chapman 1901
Ronald Eric Chapman 1903
Stanley Cecil G Chapman 1905
John Henry Chapman 1908
Doris Evelyn Chapman [Everitt] 1909-1989
Florence D Chapman 1917-a1939
Birth of Albert Edward Chapman in FreeBMD in July-September 1875 in Erpingham (4b 70).
In the 1881 census as Albert Chapman aged 5, born in Letheringsett, Norfolk, and living with his parents (James and Harriett), five brothers (Frederick, George, James, Jethroe and Matthew) and sister (Harriett) at the Old Tollgate, Hunworth, Norfolk.
His father died in Hunworth on 20 November 1881 and his mother married Arthur Neal(e) in Erpingham in 1886.
In the 1891 census as Albert Chapman aged 15, born in Letheringsett, Norfolk, an agricultural labourer, and living with his stepfather (Arthur Neal), mother (Harriet Neal), three brothers (Frederick, Jethroe and Mathew Chapman), sister (Harriet Chapman) and (half)sister (Florence Neal) in Hanworth, Norfolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940 for the marriage of Albert Edward Chapman and Edith Matilda Dodd on 10 December 1899 in Hindolveston or Hindolvestone, Norfolk. "Page 56 The Year 1899 No. 162 Banns of Marriage between Albert Edward Chapman Bachelor and Edith Matilda Todd Spinster were published on the Three Sundays underwritten; that is to say 1st, on Sunday Nov-26 1899 [...] 2d, on Sunday Dec-3 1899 [...] 3d, on Sunday Dec-10 1899".
Marriage of Albert Edward Chapman and Edith Matilda Todd in FreeBMD in October-December 1899 in Aylsham (4b 258).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Albert Edward Chapman aged 25, father James Chapman, and Edith Matilda Todd aged 25, father George Todd, on 25 December 1899 in Hindolveston, Norfolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940 for Albert Edward Chapman and Edith Matilda Todd on 10 December 1899 in Hindolveston "No. 162 Banns of Marriage between Albert Edward Chapman Bachelor and Edith Matilda Todd, Spinster Were published on the Three Sundays underwritten; that is to say 1st, on Sunday Nov 26 [...] 2d, on Sunday Dec 3 [...] 3d, on Sunday Dec 10", for the marriage of Albert Edward Chapman aged 25, father Farnel Chapman and Edith Matilda Dodd, father Peony Dodd in Hindolveston or Hindolvestone, Norfolk on 25 December 1899. "1899 Marriage solemnized in the temporary Church in the Parish of Hindolveston in the County of Norfolk [No.] 270 Dec 25 1899 Albert Edward Chapman [aged] 25, [a] Bachelor [and] Labourer [of] Hindolveston, [father] James Chapman [a] Labourer, [and] Edith Matilda Dodd (sic) [aged] 25, [a] Spinster [of] Hindolveston, [father] George Zodd, [a] Labourer. Married in the temporary church, the parish church being in ruins, according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church by me, after Banns [witnessed by George Todd who made his mark and Florence Denny]".
In the 1901 census as Albert E Chapman aged 25, born in Letheringsett, Norfolk, a wagon lifter on railway, and living with his wife (Edith H), and two sons (Albert E and James W) in four rooms on The Green, Hunworth, Norfolk.
His first four children were born in Hunworth between 1899 and 1905, and last two in Letheringsett in 1908 and 1909.
In the 1911 census as Albert Edward Chapman aged 36, born in Letheringsett, Norfolk, a farm labourer, and living with his wife (Edith), five sons (Albert, James, John, Ronald and Stanley) and daughter (Doris) and a boarder (Alfred Yarham aged 60, born in Edgefield, Norfolk, widowed and a farm labourer) in four rooms at Letheringsett near Holt, Norfolk.
His daughter was born in Letheringsett in 1917.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Albert E Chapman, born on 9 August 1875, married, a strokman?, and living at West Barsham Near Lodge, Walsingham, Norfolk, other occupants Edith M Chapman (wife?), Stanley C G Chapman (son?), and Florence D Chapman (daughter?).
Death of Albert E Chapman in FreeBMD in January-March 1945 aged 69 in Fakenham (4b 341).
Entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Albert Edward Chapman born in Letheringsett, Norfolk in 1876, parents James Chapman and Harriet Edwards, his marriage to Edith Ellen Blythe (sic), four children (not Ronald or Stanley), and his death in Cromer, Norfolk on 7 January 1929 (this was Albert Charles Chapman).
Albert Edward Chapman was the father of Doris Evelyn Chapman, wife of Albert Edward Everitt, Felicity's first cousin twice removed.
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