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:
Mary Elizabeth
Stephenson’s family tree- new information
Thos
J Chapman’s family - new information
Table of census return data
for Helena Chapman’s family tree
Where did people live? - new
information
Mitochondrial DNA - new information
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