Thomas# CHAPMAN

  General Notes:

Info as parents of Absalom from a familysearch ancestry file. This also gave other childrens names and thus found in '41, however info from Michelle Chamberlain, backed up by research at NY CRO led me to change HIS parents - originally had as Thomas Chapman and Elizabeth Cowling.

NYCRO; Bapt record says son of James Chapman of Worton ; no other Thos Chapmans bapt in Askrigg around the same time, so seems fairly certain, although could have been born in Worton and bapt elsewhere, but too much of a coincidence really.

NYCRO; Wedding record says Thomas Chapman of Worton married Isabella Moor of Thwaite Bridge at Hardrow Parish Church on 31st Oct 1811.

1841 Census; Living as head, age 50 (rounded) in Worton, Askrigg with wife and children and grandchild Isabella. Occupation; Butcher.
A Christopher Chapman (50) is living next door - possibly this is his twin that Michelle mentioned ?

1851 Census; Living as head, age 62, at Bainbridge, Yorks with wife, dau and apprentice. Occupation; Butcher and Farmer.

Possibly he is the Thomas Chapman who died in Askrigg district in Q2 1852.

1861 Census; Can't find.

Photo courtesy of Michelle Chamberlain.

Thomas# married Isabella# MOOR on 31 Oct 1811 in Hardraw, Yorks. (Isabella# MOOR was born in 1792 in Worton, Yorks and died Q1 1855 in Askrigg, N Yorks.)