Advice please re. Canadian Marriages

[snowqueen]

Hi,

Many thanks for the further info.  Unfortunately I can't get in to the Google Books bit, probably due to copyright as I'm not in Canada, but I've e-mailed a few places to try and find any Methodist records

Lyn

[J.J.]

It's a great little publication...someone did a lot of work to put all that information together, and the record keepers who kept track of the information in the first place... try googling "Cyclopędia of Methodism in Canada" and maybe you can enter the site directly to view it. Good luck with the email. ...or perhaps one day a descendant will find this and answer the question for you.

[snowqueen]

Hi JJ

I did finally manage to get into the book via a UK site.

Lyn

[tobewil]

did you ever find the connection of William Chapman(1815-1898) in Canada( m. Jane Poole),
to your William Chapman in England? I just found your thread from last year, and joined rootschat.com
I am a direct decendant of them and have been searching for the connection back to England.
I do not have parents names, were you successful?

[Pastmagic]

Another Chapman base, from the early 1600's, was Hawnby in north Yorkshire.  The New Hall in Hawnby was home to generations of Chapmans until religious oppression drove many away.  William and Mary Chapman, Methodists who were unable to practice their faith, embarked with their nine children on the Albion in 1774 for New Brunswick in Canada.  Their departure is commemmorated in Michael Chapman's anthem of loss and regret, In The Valley.

This seems a curious coincidence.......wonder if its the same family?

http://www.selectsurnames.com/chapman.html