I have James CHAPMAN miller & Mary BELL as my 5xgtgdparents. Their marriage record makes me totally confident that Mary is d/o George BELL taylor & Mary PURDIE bpt 15 Apr 1717 Corstorphine. James is s/o "James Chapman deceased Miller in West Kirk Paroch" - that much is documented.
Because of milling connections down the generations in this Chapman family, I have chosen to identify the father as James CHAPMAN, miller at Balgonie Mill, Markinch, Fife h/o Agnes ANDERSON. Their son was youngest of at least four children, born 20 Nov 1720 at Balgonie Mill - which worries me because that makes him younger than his wife and I have found (up in Banffshire) millers tended to marry quite a later than their farm servant counterparts. I haven't found any record of his death which might have given his age, but he seems to have lived his entire married life at Carrick Knowe, St Cuthberts, not as a miller but as servitor to Mungo Punton at Balgreen.
There is a whole bunch of Chapmans in Fife in Markinch and Wemyss. One of them is indeed a James CHAPMAN born 7 Sep 1717 in Hairlaw in Wemyss but his parents (James CHAPMAN & Janet LAWSON) married 20 Dec 1703 so I don't see where that 1692 date comes from: it would be more like 1680.
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