What does the surname Chapman mean?
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Merchant, Old English cēapmann, buyer and seller at market. Cheap still means market in every Cheapside; Chapman sold what neighbours grew: salt, pins, gossip, song.
Where does the Chapman family come from?
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The Chapman family is rooted in North East and North West, in England. Within that, the name was particularly concentrated in Northumberland, Tyneside, Wearside & County Durham and Tees Valley. The atlas page for the name records the historical territory it has held over the centuries.
Where did the Chapman family historically hold territory?
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At its greatest historical extent, the Chapman name has been concentrated in City of York, North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, East Riding & the Humber and Lincolnshire. The atlas page distinguishes the core territory of the name from this wider historical reach with hatched silhouettes on the map.
Is Chapman a England surname?
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Yes, Chapman is a England surname. Its editorial home in this atlas is England, where the historical territory and family record of the name are concentrated.
How old is the Chapman surname?
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Cheap still means market in every Cheapside; Chapman sold what neighbours grew: salt, pins, gossip, song. European hereditary surnames crystallised broadly between the 12th and 14th centuries, and the Chapman name took its modern form within that long settlement.
What is the Chapman family known for?
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The merchant, fair and street. Cheap still means market in every Cheapside; Chapman sold what neighbours grew: salt, pins, gossip, song.
What stories are told about the Chapman family?
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The Chapman family is associated with Keats reads Chapman's Homer through the night. Each story has its own page on this site with the full account, the date, the location, and the other families involved.
What is the story of Keats reads Chapman's Homer through the night?
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In October 1816 the twenty-year-old John Keats, then a junior apothecary's apprentice at Guy's Hospital, Southwark, was lent by his Enfield-Academy schoolfriend Charles Cowden Clarke an early-seventeenth-century folio copy of George Chapman's 1611 translation of The Iliad (Chapman the Elizabethan-and-Jacobean playwright and Homer-translator who had completed the Iliad in 1611 and the Odyssey in 1614 on a four-decade working-translation programme of post-Marlowe English-Renaissance hellenist verse). Keats and Cowden Clarke read the Chapman Iliad through the night at Cowden Clarke's small lodgings on Clerkenwell Green from ten in the evening through to six in the morning. The event is dated to 1816.
Where is the Chapman surname found today?
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England is the primary historical home of the Chapman surname. In the modern era, the name is also borne across the wider diaspora, particularly in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, where families carry the line of descent from the same England origin recorded on this page.
What does the Clan Rising page for the Chapman family cover?
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The Clan Rising page for the Chapman family covers the meaning of the surname, the historical geography of the name, traditional stories and the seat of the head of the family. Each section is linked to the underlying atlas of England so the name can be read in the geography that shaped it.
Who is the head of the Chapman family today?
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The seat for the head of the Chapman family is currently vacant on this register. Clan Rising is rebuilding the chief and family structure for the modern era, and the family page allows readers to claim the seat or pledge to the name.