Peter Hunnisett

John & Hannah Chapman

John Chapman is believed to have been born in Hursley, Hampshire, around 1765. He was a widow when he married Hannah Parsons so there must have been an earlier wife, and perhaps children, but no evidence of this family has been found.

Hannah Parsons is believed to have been born in Queen Camel, Somerset, around 1789.

John Chapman married Hannah Parsons in Hursley in 10 January 1820 and they are known to have had three children:

Emery’s and Thomas’ baptisms are the only evidence found of their existence, so it must be assumed that they died young.

In 1841 John and Hannah were in Crampmoore, just east of Romsey, with their three known children. John and Hannah were still there in 1851.

John died in 1853 and in 1861 Hannah was living with her married daughter, Henrietta’s family in Romsey. Hannah probably died in 1864.

Of John and Hannah’s known shildren:

• Joseph married Louisa Effamey and lived in Romsey.

• Georgiana married Frederick Waterman in Southampton on 8 May 1843. They are known to have had at least one child, Charle, in 1844. However, Georgiana has not been found after this so it may have been her death that was registered in Bristol in 1847.

• Henrietta married Samuel Collins, a tailor, in 1845 and their children were:

  Samuel

  1846

  Thomas

  1848

  John

  1850

  Cornelius

  1852

  Henrietta

  1854

  Fanny

  ca.1857

  William Barton

  1860

  Edwin

  1864

  George Henry

  1872

  Samuel and Henrietta lived in Romsey until the 1870s when they moved to Birmingham. Henrietta died in Birmingham in 1901.