Hello all,
I've been doing genealogy as a hobby for 10 year now but it's only recently that I've started exploring my mother's London routes. However with one of the branches there is an illegitimate child and no father. Now the story starts with my great-great grandfather Henry Arthur Chapman (b. 6 Sept 1886 - d.7 Jan 1949). I have his birth record and so know his mother's name is Alice Chapman but from his birth in Peckham all the way to his marriage of Emily Minnie Church in 1909 he is nowhere to be found in any of the records that I can definitively say is him. I also know nothing about his mother Alice.
On his marriage certificate he's put his father down as Henry Chapman - Deceased - Occupation: Clerk. I can find no evidence of any Henry Chapman.
If anyone could help out with this conundrum I would be very thankful. Most attempts to find anything about them by other family members has always ended in failure.
I've been doing genealogy as a hobby for 10 year now but it's only recently that I've started exploring my mother's London routes. However with one of the branches there is an illegitimate child and no father. Now the story starts with my great-great grandfather Henry Arthur Chapman (b. 6 Sept 1886 - d.7 Jan 1949). I have his birth record and so know his mother's name is Alice Chapman but from his birth in Peckham all the way to his marriage of Emily Minnie Church in 1909 he is nowhere to be found in any of the records that I can definitively say is him. I also know nothing about his mother Alice.
On his marriage certificate he's put his father down as Henry Chapman - Deceased - Occupation: Clerk. I can find no evidence of any Henry Chapman.
If anyone could help out with this conundrum I would be very thankful. Most attempts to find anything about them by other family members has always ended in failure.
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