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He worked for the Hare Estate as a general labourer, and also managed the cricket ground. He loved fishing and smoking his pipe. Joan remembers him as being a nice old man. He died on 19 July 1943 and is buried at Stow Bardolph with Eliza. |
Before she married, she worked as a domestic servant for a butcher, (William Bunkall) in the High Steet in Downham. (ref: 1871 Census for Downham.) She died on 2 Dec 1933 after a long illness, and is buried at Stow Bardolph with Robert. |
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They married in Downham Market Primitive chapel on 17th June 1880
Downham Primitive chapel
This is their marriage notice as reported in the Ipswich Journal of 29th Jun 1880. |
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She died on 8th February 1975. |
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She was in the Red Cross during WW1. She died on 30th March 1963.
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She married Richard WEEDEN (and became my grandmother.) Click here for more about Emma & Richard's family. She died on 6th January 1982 aged 91. |
 Fred was born in 1884. He didn't marry. He lived in Hilgay for most of his adult life.
He died on 10th June 1976. |
She died on 1st March 1989 at Hunstanton. |
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Robert CHAPMAN was born in Wimbotsham, Norfolk on 12th February 1858, to 
Eliza CATCHPOLE was born on 15th June 1855 to 
Beatrice was Eliza's illegitimate daughter,born in 1880. Beatrice married Ernest Gage MARTIN, and had one daughter, Phyllis. She appears to have lived with her grandparents William and Susan, in Stow Bardolph, as that is where she is on the 
Ada was born in 1889. In 
Nell (Ellen) was born in 1881 - Robert and Eliza's first child.In 
Emma was born on 15th July 1891. Here she is in 
Daisy was born in 1896. Aged 14 in 
Frank WRIGHT was born in 1895 to 
