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James Chapman b, 1692.
« on: Sunday 17 January 21 18:24 GMT (UK) »
I’d be grateful if anyone could help me with information regarding James Chapman Born 1692. Edinburgh. All I know about him is that one of his children, also called James Chapman, Born 1717 who married Margaret Bell at St. Cuthbert’s Church, Edinburgh May, 1744.

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Re: James Chapman b, 1692.
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 17 January 21 18:41 GMT (UK) »
If any info that far back is available it will be on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk which is a pay per view site

How do you know he was born in Edinburgh 1692?
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Re: James Chapman b, 1692.
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 17 January 21 19:14 GMT (UK) »
There are only two recorded James Chapmans baptised in 1717. One in Oyne (Aberdeenshire) and one in Wemyss (Fife).

What is your source for the James Chapman who married Mary Bell being born in 1717, and for his father having been born in 1692 in Edinburgh?
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Re: James Chapman b, 1692.
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 17 January 21 19:17 GMT (UK) »
The names and Edinburgh were on a note passed onto me years ago. I don’t know how the name or place of birth were originally found.

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Re: James Chapman b, 1692.
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 17 January 21 19:32 GMT (UK) »
Ah. Because I can't see anything in the surviving records at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

What more do you know about James Chapman and Mary Bell?
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Re: James Chapman b, 1692.
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 17 January 21 20:08 GMT (UK) »
Also among the notes were reference to the marriage of James Chapman b1717 and Mary Bell b1717 at St. Cuthberts Church, Edinburgh on the 20th May 1744.

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Re: James Chapman b, 1692.
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 19 January 21 09:35 GMT (UK) »
Have you got the marriage entry from Scotlandspeople? Occasionally these give some extra information which is useful.

The reference no is  685/2  160 22

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Re: James Chapman b, 1692.
« Reply #7 on: Friday 22 January 21 17:44 GMT (UK) »
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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Re: James Chapman b, 1692.
« Reply #8 on: Monday 25 January 21 15:33 GMT (UK) »
Comparing  other family trees, so far i have a James Chapman b. 1717 m. 24/5/1747 St. Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh to Margaret Bell b.1717.
James father also called James born 25/5/1692 at Kettle, Fife, wife unknown.
James parents Robert Chapman and Jannet Naughtone.
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