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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Suffolk => Topic started by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 09:25 BST (UK)

Title: is James Chaplin senI or linked to Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 09:25 BST (UK)
My brother in law was told that his grand father was Charlie Chaplin s cousin ...
I thought I'd be able to solve it for him but Ancestry  subscription have run out and  eyes are strained

I think the cousins were actually  Charles chaplin senior and alfred john Chaplin but don't have their birth years to find mutual grandfather

The dates I do know  are Eric Alfred Chaplin 1923 -1996 wife Margaret Lillian Smith

His father was Alfred Thomas Chaplin

Who I belive is the one born 1888 in Fulham
Wife Caroline A Bradford

In which case his father  Alfred John CHAPLIN would be born Newton Suffolk  aged 33 in 1901 wife Eliza C
Title: Re: Help finding link betwee alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 09:29 BST (UK)
Charlie Spence Chaplin was born 1888 and his brother Sydney  4 years earlier
Charles  Chaplin senior was not in the picture they were brought up by their mother nee HILL

Does anyone know where Charles senior was born and his father's name

I believe there is no proof of a marriage  for Hanah
Title: Re: Help finding link betwee alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: louisa maud on Saturday 23 June 18 09:40 BST (UK)
It looks as if Eric  Alfred Chaplin had 2 other siblings both MMN Bradford

Ivy C  born 1914
Joan M 1927
 then Eric himself was born 1923
All registered Fulham

The is also a marriage St John Fulham 1887
Alfred Chaplin aged 19 father James
to Eliza Caroline Bradford aged 20 father Thomas

Might not be much help to you

Have you considered 1939 register

Louisa Maud
Title: Re: Help finding link betwee alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 09:44 BST (UK)
I thought Eric Alfred was an only child

I .ll have to check that
With his son

 I don't have access to 1939 register at moment
Title: Re: Help finding link betwee alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: louisa maud on Saturday 23 June 18 09:48 BST (UK)
They are the births shown with MMN Bradford all born Fulham, perhaps it is a coincidence

LM
Title: Re: Help finding link betwee alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: Lily M on Saturday 23 June 18 10:06 BST (UK)
I haven’t checked through it, but Find My Past has a ‘Famous family trees’ blog about Charlie Chaplin.

They have Charlie Chaplin’s grandfather as Spencer Chaplin born c.1826 in Ipswich.
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 10:19 BST (UK)
Thanks lily  I.ll try and work down from
Spencer Chaplin .

And hope he had a son called Alfred John Chaplin which is the information I have

Louisa :James can be an alternative for John on census 1901 Alfred born Fulham has father Alfred and mothef Eliza C CHAPLIN   from Newton Suffolk

So could be correct ..ivy and joan may have died young

Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: Raybistre on Saturday 23 June 18 10:30 BST (UK)
According to Wikipedia Charles Chaplin & Hannah Hill were married in 1885.
From FreeBMD
Surname     First name(s)       District     Vol     Page
Marriages Jun 1885 
Bottle    William Henry        St Saviour    1d   325    
Chaplin    Charles         St. Saviour    1d   325    
Collins    Charlotte         St. Saviour    1d   325   
Hill    Hannah Harriett         St. Saviour    1d   325    

Ray
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: Cas (stallc) on Saturday 23 June 18 10:42 BST (UK)
Online tree, don't know if it will help

https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&p=spencer&n=chaplin

Cas
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: louisa maud on Saturday 23 June 18 10:47 BST (UK)
22/06/1885 St John's Walworth

Charles Chaplin aged 22 father Spencer a Butcher
to
Hannah Harriett aged 19 father Charles Boot Maker
both of 57 Brandon St


Louisa Maud
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 11:08 BST (UK)
Thanks Louise Ray & Cas

That family tree shows Spencer Chaplin b Ipswich a1826 as only having 1 child
Charles (smr)

So the relation must be thru
Shadrach Spencer b1814 Suffolk

I don't know where b i l family originated

Eric Alfred b 1923 lived in London 1939
** married in Harrow middlesex1951.
Died in Surrey 1996
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 11:41 BST (UK)
Here's Shadrach in 1841

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M738-CP7

Not seeing any connection to Alfreds branach yet
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 11:55 BST (UK)
Shadrach in 1841
  eldest son Christopher age 12 Spencer age 6
shadrac 3 and
Emilia 1

In 1851 he is a brewer (master )

In 1861 an inn keeper with another son Henry

So plenty of descendents to follow

1st person to find an Alfred gets a gold star !
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: Cas (stallc) on Saturday 23 June 18 12:00 BST (UK)
Check table one of Chaplin family, not sure if it will help thou, not finding a clear connection.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01m8x/ near the beginning of book

Cas

Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: louisa maud on Saturday 23 June 18 12:10 BST (UK)
Oooh, what an incentive!!!!!!

Louisa     Maud
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 12:31 BST (UK)
That's fantastic  Cas
I've been looking  at shadrach 2  as the article calls him

I had found that he went back to his father's trade and was a bootmaker aged 67 in 1881 & a clog maker in 1891

But have some conflicting information about his wife as I think  Sophie died in Ipswich in 1868 

his wife in 1881 and 1891 is Susan

So I wonder if  his children  got inheritance from 2nd wife

I'm presuming    Shadrach 2 siblings Mesach Abednego are boys names
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 12:53 BST (UK)
Cas I've read 5 pages but didn't see a table

Do you mean page 1

I'm off to look for Spencer Chaplin s 7 children ....have to look at the girls too because there could be single parents in the mix
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: Cas (stallc) on Saturday 23 June 18 12:57 BST (UK)
Cas I've read 5 pages but didn't see a table

Do you mean page 1

I'm off to look for Spencer Chaplin s 7 children ....have to look at the girls too because there could be single parents in the mix

Very much at the beginning of book, there are 2 tables of family, like a chart.
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 13:57 BST (UK)
I can't find how to go back in book

children for Spencer Chaplin b1835

His 1st son Spencer William Tunstill Chaplin 1854-  died before 1901
Had 5 children
Spencer walter 1881-1900 died aged 18 in Exeter

Aubrey Chaplin b1885 Newington London
1911 Was a licensed victualler married to Emily b 1884
Their SonSpencer b Marylebone

Helen Preswood Chaplin b1892

Louise VB Chaplin b1888

Harold Chaplin b1889

Years approx as taken from cenus




Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 14:33 BST (UK)
According to the book
Spencer CHAPLIN and Ellen Eliza had 7 children and Charles was the 5th child and 3Rd son

BUT


Here is Spencer as a widower in 1881 with 2 boys and 2 girls born after  Charles

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q273-9RYL

At Rillington place  Ellen K age 16   Blanche age 13  both born Paddington
Albert F 12 and Harry 10 b Kensington
Am not finding these children in 1871   but getting distracted  from my goal of looking for Alfred John/ James Chaplin s connection

In 1881 Spencer William Tunstill Chaplin age 25   and his brother Charles are running  a pub in Battersea


Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 16:11 BST (UK)
I think I should have 2 separate  threads before maybe the Fulham cab drivers are not related to Charlie s Chaplin

But have know been informed  that aunt ivy and Joan are correct

Also their father Alfred Thomas Chaplin b 1888 did something  that the family don't talk about and left them ...so another mystery to be solved .
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 17:35 BST (UK)
Help came from chat room and the grandson

So in 1939
Alfred Thomas  was at 17 pellant road in Fullham
With his mother Eliza b 1862
He was married
But

Caroline Ann CHAPLIN b 24 Mar 1892
Unpaid domestic duties was with  childrem Ivy C/ Eric A and someone else

Alfred Thomas died aged 75 in 1964 Chelsea   his son attended funeral

Caroline died 1893  age 99
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 20:34 BST (UK)
Time line for Eric Alfred family
Speculative

1819 1823 birth of James Chaplin

 christening 1823 Newton  Suffolk   father George Chaplin mother hetty maria

1841    CHAPLIN James age 23 at siam hall sudbury Suffolk
With Charlotte age 25 -29
Mary 1

Not found marriage to Rosa
But
1871 census
 James (Jas)52 wife rosa50
children Newman 11
Harry 8
Charles 6
*Alfred 4
All born Newton Suffolk

1881 James 62 Rosa 60  Alfred 13 is classed as Hawkers son

Alfred moves to FULHAM
 1887 Marries Eliza Caroline aged 19     *   if her surname Bradford as stated in reply 2 by Louisa it's same as future daughter in law

1888 April q Alfred Thomas christened

1891 Alfred aged 23 motorcar proprietor /cab driver
Wife Eliza C aged 24
 Alfred Thomas age 2 James age
1893 william born
1895 Rosa

1901 Alfred  age 33 cab driver
1904 Eliza Caroline born
1911 Alfred  age 43  and son alfred Thomes age 22

 cab drivers

AlFred Thomas Marries   Caroline Ann Bradford
IVY C Chaplin b 1914
Joan M 1922
Eric Alfred 1923

1939 Alfred Thomas  vehicle builder with mother Eliza Caroline 
Caroline Ann with her children in Fulham

So now I need more about James and his father George

Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: louisa maud on Saturday 23 June 18 22:29 BST (UK)
Time line for Eric Alfred family
Speculative

1819 1823 birth of James Chaplin

 christening 1823 Newton  Suffolk   father George Chaplin mother hetty maria

1841    CHAPLIN James age 23 at siam hall sudbury Suffolk
With Charlotte age 25 -29
Mary 1 mothers maiden name HARPER

Not found marriage to Rosa
But
1871 census
 James (Jas)52 wife rosa50
children Newman 11 Registered CHAPLIN mothers maiden name NEWMAN
Harry 8
Charles 6
*Alfred 4
All born Newton Suffolk

1881 James 62 Rosa 60  Alfred 13 is classed as Hawkers son

Alfred moves to FULHAM
 1887 Marries Eliza Caroline aged 19     *   if her surname Bradford as stated in reply 2 by Louisa it's same as future daughter in law

1888 April q Alfred Thomas christened Mothers maiden name BRADFORD

1891 Alfred aged 23 motorcar proprietor /cab driver
Wife Eliza C aged 24
 Alfred Thomas age 2 James age mothers maiden name BRADFORD for the following
1893 William born
1895 Rosa



So now I need more about James and his father George



Checked above and partly  added mothers maiden names

Louisa Maud
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: louisa maud on Saturday 23 June 18 22:37 BST (UK)
Possible marriage between James Chaplin and Rosa Newman 1845 Cosford Suffolk

Seems there are 2 marraiges
Chaplin
to
Bradford

1887 Alfred Chaplin to Eliza Caroline
1913 Alfred T to Caroline A Bradford

Both in Fulham

Louisa Maud
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 22:48 BST (UK)
Thanks for that Louisa
I wonder if the Bradford ladies are related

I think Newman was the 11 year olds first name  is thought I d look for him next &  Phoebe  there are too many James


The Charlie tree  now goes back to a George 1741 son of John Chaplin  1700 -1787

So getting nearer to finding  the mutual patriarch
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 23:03 BST (UK)
Yes found
Newman Chaplin in 1891 age 31 in Hampshire 
A chropodist and masseur ...always good to have 1 in the family
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: louisa maud on Saturday 23 June 18 23:15 BST (UK)
Oh my, it seems to be getting more complicated

Caroline A Bradford mothers maiden name  TOTTMAN born 1893 Fulham

Thomas John Bradford married Caroline a  TOTTMAN Fulham 1891, parents of above ?

Richard Bradford married Hannah TOTTMAN FULHAM 1901

Louisa Maud
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: louisa maud on Saturday 23 June 18 23:30 BST (UK)
Don't know if this Eliza Bradford born 1866 Kensington mothers maiden name Huxley is your Eliza who married Alfred 1887,

BUT

I have found a marriage 19/08/1865 St John Nottinghill
Thomas Bradford aged 22 coachman father John a coachman
to
Eliza Huxley  aged 22 father Mark a fishmonger

So could  this couple be Eliza Bradford's parents, she born 1866 Kensington, neither is a stones throw from Fulham

I am off to be as I might be getting a tad confused

Louisa Maud
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 23 June 18 23:40 BST (UK)
Yes let's ignore the Bradford  tottman s bed time for me too
Thanks for all your  hard work

Too much to do with all the Chaplin s

Yes I saw the 1945 wedding record said James a widower

Rosa Newman was a great find

Phoebe is more complicated not found her maiden name

There is a Phoebe Chaplin b great Waldingfield 1816 daughter of James and Phoebe

Probably same one who Marries John  Gout in 1840 Edwardstone


Same names for parents  of Mary b 1822
And Zechariah b 1827 Newton Suffolk
Phoebe and James



Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: smudwhisk on Sunday 24 June 18 00:18 BST (UK)
Check table one of Chaplin family, not sure if it will help thou, not finding a clear connection.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01m8x/ near the beginning of book

Cas

I stopped reading when it said they were descended from Huguenots. ::)

There are a considerable number of Chaplins in West Suffolk from the 1500s onwards, particularly two "families" associated with Monks Eleigh / Chelsworth and Acton / Semer.  There are also a number of published pedigrees on the various families with the usual number of errors unfortunately.  We've been researching the Acton/Semer family for some years.

From what I've seen its believed that Charlie Chaplin's line links into the Chelsworth/Monks Eleigh family but I've not been through the "tree" with a fine tooth comb as not my particular line and there's no obvious connection between the two lines in the 1500s in spite of their proximity.  If there is a connection its further back.  Some members of each of these lines coincidentally resided in the same parishes at the same times which I think has caused some confusion with some researchers.
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Sunday 24 June 18 06:19 BST (UK)
Thanks  whisk
He didn't think there was a connection til told that a relative had found that his great grand father was Charlie's cousin
I maybe able to at least disprove that !

If I can find more about  James Chaplin 1786
#He's a labourer place of birth looks like Wallingfield
Great Waldingfield given as birth place of his  daughter Phoebe in 1816 # (added)

grandfather of Alfred b Newton Suffolk 1864

 need more data to confirm that line

I.ll concentrate on Chaplins from Newton Suffolk for now .I wonder which branch they are .
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Sunday 24 June 18 13:41 BST (UK)
Have paid for another months subs to Ancestry ...can now confirm
Eliza Bradford is daughter of the coachman   Bradford &Eliza Huxley

Also looking at some original censuses found  James Chaplin the elder living a few doors away from.son James the hawker
1851 james & Phoebe had granddaughter Maria    may be first child of James with first wife Charlotte
The hawker  had far more children with Rosa than I initially thought

By 1861 James the elderly and widow
In 1871 he is head on his own but 2 doors away aged 79 again lab "unable to work"



As for Zechariah  there is one in each generation so Rosa did have a son zacharia and a brother in law

Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: louisa maud on Sunday 24 June 18 17:41 BST (UK)
Zechariah Chaplin born 1848 Sudbury , MMN NEWMAN

Maria Chaplin g/daughter born circa 1841 Sudbury, MMN HARPER

1839 marriage Cosford James Chaplin to Charlotte Harper

Louisa Maud
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: louisa maud on Sunday 24 June 18 17:47 BST (UK)
1841  ? Hall, can't read the name
James Chaplin aged 23 ag lab
Charlotte 25
Mary 1

James 45 ag lab
Phoebe 45
Zachariah 13
Sarah 10

possibly living at same address
Rosetta Crisell aged 86

All born in county

Louisa Maud
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: louisa maud on Sunday 24 June 18 18:04 BST (UK)
The children of Spencer Chaplin and his wife Ellen had mother's maiden name of SMITH, I cannot find a marriage so far, possibly before registration

Ellen died in Kensington 1873

Louisa Maud
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Sunday 24 June 18 22:49 BST (UK)
Thanks Louisa I like to have confirmation
Have now found records of James Chaplin s first marriage  & daughter Mary Birth

James Chaplin then married Rosa Newman in 1845
their 1st child was Emily b1845

Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Sunday 24 June 18 22:52 BST (UK)
Caroline Ann Bradford was a very accomplished lady and even if her husband isn't linked to Charlie Chaplin it's good to know that she was a pianist employed to play the music  for silent films

Her grandson sent a pic for me to add to her ancestry profile .And is intrigged to know what the scandal about his grandfather Alfred Thomas  was .He thought it was maybe to do with drunk driving which would explain why he went from driving cabs in the 1920.s to making vehicles in 1939
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Monday 25 June 18 00:41 BST (UK)
Louisa. I.ll check on that Rosita CRISElL aged 80 in 1840

Whisk# reply 30

I think James  Chaplin b1793 came from Wallingfield
His daughter Phoebe  b great Waldingfield 1818

I don't know how far back we need to go to see which branch of Chaplins we belong to .
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Monday 25 June 18 09:45 BST (UK)
The family idea that Charles Chaplin senior b 1892 in a nearby Suffolk village   was cousin to james chaplins sons including Charles b.1897Chaplin  Newton Suffolk
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: louisa maud on Monday 25 June 18 10:03 BST (UK)
I have teamed up Ketch to Chaplin on your other request

Louisa Maud
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Monday 25 June 18 11:22 BST (UK)
Thanks Louise 
 URLadded for Albert Ketch

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=795812.msg6525361

a
any Bradford connections can go on there

B I L vaguely remembers his father debating whether tor attend his birth father s funeral in 1964 Alfred  Thomas   
I wonder how far away from his children he lived and died ....?
No evidence he took up with another woman so far


Possible discharge from army (dis honourable ?)1919

Possible  POW in Poland  in WW2
Possible army records ..I've added to my tree ...til I can double check

Could be that Caroline  not him was the one with shameful  rea son for separation  .her children were  young when the  couple ssepated and preferred their new dad
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Monday 25 June 18 15:08 BST (UK)
A possibility
Army record
Chaplin Alfred T.   
 RASC /10127
BRITISH

 Rank :Private
Corps ASC

In remarks says Disc...

Does that mean discharged ?

No year on form just from 1914 -1920

Could that be our Man?

Family legend is that
 he did not leave his wife .
.she threw him out

Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Monday 25 June 18 16:50 BST (UK)
Am I allowed to put link to Ancestry page

I want to copy the pics to compare

And have someone take a look at military records. .that's probably better on a specific board  with link to this topic .bear with me while I attempt to do attachments

Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Monday 25 June 18 16:52 BST (UK)
 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/117020831/person/152015772216/facts

I wI'll delete if not allowed
Scoop down to bit about WW1 records

Look at pic of Alfred Thomas

Does he look like his son ?
Oh don't know how to  copy that .

Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: louisa maud on Monday 25 June 18 17:17 BST (UK)
Looks as if Albert and Caroline set up home together circa 1935, prior to the Albert seems to be in a house with a lot of people, none recognizable to the name we have here

Louisa Maud
ps
Ivy C married 1940 at Hendon to Frank W Shepopard
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Monday 25 June 18 17:38 BST (UK)
Thanks Louisa where did you find that ?  Put post on tbe Ketch thread please

And can you give me the names of people hes with in case I find a link.later

Modified. ..keep to Chaplin details  here ...
Interested to know when Caroline and Albert Thomas Chaplin separated
I think it is him on army record being discharged Feb 1919
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: smudwhisk on Monday 25 June 18 22:51 BST (UK)
1939 Alfred Thomas  vehicle builder with mother Eliza Caroline 
Caroline Ann with her children in Fulham

That Alfred Thomas isn't the father of your Eric.  The vehicle builder in Fulham would appear to be with his wife who is some years older and he was born in 1882 in Barnet RD with MMN Fox.  They are together on the Electoral Rolls at the same address as early as 1927.

In any case, Eliza Caroline Chaplin nee Bradford is on the 1939 Register with her husband Alfred and son James at 20 St Olafs Road, Fulham, the same address they are at on the 1911 Census.

Alfred Thomas Chaplin son of Alfred and Eliza Caroline can be found at 74 Wardo Avenue, Fulham, on the 1939 Register.  His occupation looks like Lead Light Cemente... (the end of the last word is obscured by the middle of the book).  This is the same address that Alfred Thomas and Caroline Ann Chaplin are at from 1919 Electoral Register onwards up until 1935 (those viewable on Ancestry anyway).  Alfred Thomas' date of birth is listed on the 1939 Register as 27 April 1888 (the Alfred Thomas Vehicle Builder has birth date of 18 Feb 1882).  The birth registered in 1888 with MMN of Bradford would tie in with the 1888 Alfred Thomas on the 1939 Register and the same date is on Alfred's baptism on 29 July 1895 at Walham Green when he was baptised with his siblings James, William and Rosa, their father being listed as a Cab Driver.

Its interesting you say that Alfred's family say his wife threw him out because he remained at 74 Wardo Avenue and it was Caroline and the children who appear to have moved elsewhere as Caroline only shows there on the Electoral Registers up until 1935.
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Monday 25 June 18 22:58 BST (UK)
Amazing find Whisk
Yes I have saved the lamplighter man as an alternative  but thought he couldn't be in 2 places at once

I.ll take another look and revise my tree
Often don't think to go to bottom of page on 1911 census to find address

Ha ha family tell tales from their perspective

Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Monday 25 June 18 23:17 BST (UK)
So the vehicle buIlder with  Eliza
Is a completely different family ??? At 17 pellant road
Their ages are very difficult to read

Alfred Thomas was at St Olafs road
In.1911 with his parents ...

Ok
So 1939 he.s living in a house alone
And his job is difficult to decipher ..another family story is that he went down in the world but not a lamp lighter .I wonder what this job was

And his brother and mother are still at St Olaf road

Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: smudwhisk on Monday 25 June 18 23:34 BST (UK)
So the vehicle buIlder with  Eliza
Is a completely different family ??? At 17 pellant road
Their ages are very difficult to read

Alfred Thomas was at St Olafs road
In.1911 with his parents ...

Ok
So 1939 he.s living in a house alone
And his job is difficult to decipher ..another family story is that he went down the world but not a lamp lighter

And his brother and mother are still at St Olaf road if I've got that right

But I think that is him with his mother

How can he be with his mother in 1939 when she is at the same address as in 1911 with her husband and son, and son Alfred Thomas is with them in 1911?

I suggest you have a look at the London Electoral Registers and you'll see it is a completely different family. 

I'm sorry if you don't like me refuting your research but it is obvious that a mistake had been made and I've provided the evidence.  Obviously it is up to you whether you want to take any notice of it or not but this thread is somewhat disjointed to follow anyway trying to find a link to Charlie Chaplin which may not exist and most likely does not exist very closely.
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Monday 25 June 18 23:52 BST (UK)
OK
I' think ive sorted out the 1939 registers
Its Alfred Senior at family home St.Olaf Road  b 1867 with son James  1890 and youngest daughter
 Eliza C Chaplin
actually a lot younger
born 03   = 1903


# modified 
I will ignore the.other cab drivers
AlFred b1988
as whisk hss shown cleaRly it's not direct family


Our Alfred is a widower so

Of course Alfred Thomas couldn't be living with his dead  mother !!
 







Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Monday 25 June 18 23:56 BST (UK)
Please don't be offended I'm not refuting your research just trying to get it clear in my head

+ like to see the originals for myself

I'm no longer trying to link to Charlie Chaplins family

Sorry about disjointedness am going too fast .

Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Tuesday 26 June 18 05:19 BST (UK)
1939 Caroline & children & Ketch
At  22  Lisgard.terrace

I've reread thread several times cant find link Ray posted for that address .

Have managed to go back extra generation to
.another james labourer grandfather of
 James the hawker the father of Hackney business  Alfred .&
GFather of intriguing  Alfred Thomas
Title: Re: Help link: alfred john chaplin and Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Tuesday 26 June 18 09:47 BST (UK)
Personal story sent from my sister
About Caroline Ann  Chaplin nee Bradford
 +  her father .
 "   
. He was a hansom cab driver and she told me at the age of 98 (when she lived with Eric & Margaret) that she rode on his cab as a girl.

She died on 23 November 1992 in Epsom, Surrey, at the age of 99, only four months short of receiving a telegram from the Queen. (Her son Eric Alfred was devastated and blamed Epsom General Hospital for not keeping her going until the next March. He pointed out that she had eaten a steak the day before, so was clearly not mortally ill.)

Title: Re: is James Chaplin senI or linked to Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: smudwhisk on Tuesday 26 June 18 10:35 BST (UK)
Suffolk Marriage Index
James Chaplin married Pheobe Goddard 25 Dec 1815 at Great Waldingfield

Suffolk Burial Index
Newton Phoebe Chaplin buried 5 Dec 1860 aged 66 years
Newton James Chaplin buried 27 May 1871 aged 79 years

Not sure where you've got the death for Phoebe in 1817 on your Ancestry tree from with a second wife, not born out by the census entries or burial index.  No Chaplin burials on the Suffolk Burial Index at Great Waldingfield.  While its not complete, the missing records tend to be from an earlier period.

James and Phoebe are in Newton on the Census together.

Suffolk Baptism Index
Great Waldingfield James Chaplin son of John and Mary nee Howard baptised 1 Jan 1793

However, it looks like Mary as the mother's name is a mistake and it should be Sarah because there are four other children baptised to them in the parish and all list the mother as Sarah nee Howard or Haward - John (1787), Thomas (1789), Mary Ann (1791) and Maria (1795).

Suffolk Marriage Index
Little Cornard
27 Jan 1785 James Chaplin married Sarah Hayward

Obviously needs checking but I have seen entries where Howard and Haward are interchanged, and probably explains the use of Hayward on the marriage entry.

Suffolk Burial Index
All at Newton
10 Aug 1810 Sarah Chaplin wife of James
31 Dec 1812 John Chaplin son of James and late Sarah
13 Jan 1816 James Chaplin aged 51 years

Suffolk Baptism Index
Great Waldingfield 14 Nov 1764 James Chaplin son of John and Ann baptised

There is a John Chaplin buried at Newton 3 Jan 1800 but no age and two Ann's buried 2 Nov 1802 and 27 Nov 1804 but again with no ages.  All from the Suffolk Burial Index.

There is admittedly a James Chaplin baptised 18 Jan 1761 at Great Waldingfield to James and Mary Chaplin.  However, James' age on his burial suggests he is more likely to be the younger James baptised 1764, especially as his eldest son was named John.  Not concrete proof but perhaps more likely than the 1761 baptism.
Title: Re: is James Chaplin senI or linked to Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Tuesday 26 June 18 11:28 BST (UK)
ĺChaplin  tree is a work in.progress.

The James line is comlocated cos they marry young and live long
                                                         ....                    wives
I  call  them Wallingford James the elder        Mary Howard

Ag.lab James                                  ..........            phobe Goddard

B1786 d 1890   or Oct 1879 suffolk

James the Hawker                                          m 1939 Charlotte H
                                                                           
                                   Then                           Rosa Newman 1845

Alfred the cabbie from Newton              M Eliza Bradford

Alfred  Thomas  Fullham  born cabbie
Title: Re: is James Chaplin senI or linked to Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Tuesday 26 June 18 11:30 BST (UK)
Bear with me and excuse typos # I wrote a long message with dates it got lost in computer land    so easier for me to writea a post and add to it

I will revisit dates I have .....some may be from miscalculated ages from birth years on census

I'm not used to working with parish  records had assumed  baptisms years were same as birth year
Title: Re: is James Chaplin senI or linked to Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Tuesday 26 June 18 11:45 BST (UK)
It would be good if I could add corrections in a different colour on here

Also I.  Getting hooked on finding out more about Alfred Thomas.

+ I will correct what I can on Ancestry preferably usIng a tablet or computer it's too hard on the eyes of  phone
Thanks for your patience

Title: Re: is James Chaplin senI or linked to Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Tuesday 26 June 18 12:34 BST (UK)
Whisk I think I can match all the names and dates you give except the younger James in last paragraph

I must get lost with james.ag lab can not be baptised in 1793

If his father was born 1786 ....

And with Mary being a first wife

Ancestry records not confirming links
I think there were several Phoebe. S
Ag.labs wife is spelt Phebe on a few records
Their daughter Phoebe  Chaplin marrived John Goat a gardener
Title: Re: is James Chaplin senI or linked to Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: smudwhisk on Tuesday 26 June 18 17:53 BST (UK)
Whisk I think I can match all the names and dates you give except the younger James in last paragraph

I must get lost with james.ag lab can not be baptised in 1793

If his father was born 1786 ....

And with Mary being a first wife

Ancestry records not confirming links
I think there were several Phoebe. S
Ag.labs wife is spelt Phebe on a few records
Their daughter Phoebe  Chaplin marrived John Goat a gardener

I am sorry but I really do not understand what you are saying.  I never said that the James (with wife Phoebe) in Great Waldingfield and Newton was the son of a James born in 1786 when he was baptised in 1793.  I cannot for the life of me, re-reading what I wrote, understand where you get this from.  I also cannot work out why you think that this James was born in 1786, unless that is the approximate age from the 1841 Census (which is known to be the least reliable of all census), because on other Census and also his burial his year is birth is down as c1793.

I have tried to help you with research, something you requested yourself via PM, but now I shall stand back and let others help you with your research.
Title: Re: is James Chaplin senI or linked to Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: Suffolk Mawther on Tuesday 17 July 18 19:15 BST (UK)
A woman at our History Society has a full tree taking her back to her ancestor, a sibling of Charles Chaplin from the Stowmarket area of the county (from recollection) so possibly Old Newton rather than Newton.

SM …

Title: Re: is James Chaplin senI or linked to Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: isobelw on Tuesday 17 July 18 22:17 BST (UK)
Ref the link between Eliza Caroline Bradford and Caroline Ann Bradford
Caroline Ann Bradford’s father Thomas John Bradford was a brother of Eliza Caroline Bradford, wife of Alfred Chaplin. Eliza Caroline was born in Kensington in 1866 and Thomas John was born in Chelsea in 1871. Both children of Thomas Bradford, Cab Driver and Eliza Nee Huxley.
This means that Eric Alfred Chaplin’s paternal grandmother and maternal grandfather were brother and sister.
Isobel
Title: Re: is James Chaplin senI or linked to Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 21 July 18 08:27 BST (UK)
Thanks for that gem of information
Isob I will pass it on .


Suffolkm I thought Charlie Chaplin only had 1 sibling brother Stanley (that lady.s tree would be interesting)

Apologies for the typing and odd sentences I'm doing it all on smart phone .hope to get computer back soon .
Title: Re: is James Chaplin senI or linked to Charlie Chaplin senior
Post by: brigidmac on Thursday 02 March 23 22:15 GMT (UK)
UPDATE

My brother in law's DNA results are in and there is a match to James CHAPLIN +   Phoebe GODDARD thru son Zacharia b1842