Chapman Family History
Chapman Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a merchant or trader, Middle English
chapman, Old English ceapmann, a compound of
ceap ‘barter’, ‘bargain’, ‘price’, ‘property’ + mann
‘man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Chapman Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Chapman families
 721 - 1,439  241 - 720 |
 1 - 240  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Chapman families
|
3,758 - 7,513 1,253 - 3,757 |
1 - 1,252 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Chapman families
|
289 - 575 97 - 288 |
1 - 96 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Chapman census records
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Chapman Family Origin
Chapman Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Chapman
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Chapman Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Chapman census records
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Chapman Civil War Service Records
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