Helena Chapman’s family tree

 

On her dad’s side, Thomas Joseph Chapman

 

On her mum’s side, Mary Elizabeth Stephenson

 

One of the primary motivators for researching the family history is to investigate the family legend that we are descended from George Stephenson, the Victorian inventor of the steam engine.  Unfortunately this is untrue, George had only one child, his son Robert, Robert had no children so there are no descendents of George Stephenson.  Presumably this legend stems from one of our ancestors being called Robert Stephenson.  New info: More information on the depth of this myth can be read on Mary Elizabeth Stephenson’s page, below.

 

New info: John Dean is from Marsden in West Yorkshire, easy day-trip distance from Morley.  We plan to go for a look round at some point,  but apart from hunting for Deans in the cemetery I’m not sure what we’ll be looking for!  John Dean was a fish monger in Hull, I don’t think there was much call for that trade in the Pennines before the advent of the railway!

 

Click on the following links for more information:

expbul1a  Helena Chapman’s life story

expbul1a  Helena’s brothers and sisters

expbul1a  Mary Elizabeth Stephenson’s family tree- new information

expbul1a  Thos J Chapman’s family - new information

expbul1a  Photo Gallery

expbul1a  Table of census return data for Helena Chapman’s family tree

expbul1a  Where did people live?  - new information

expbul1a  Mitochondrial DNA - new information

 

 

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