Ernest Chapman
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Ernest Chapman
I'm researching my granfather, Ernest L. Chapman, born somewhere in England. His parents, I don't know their names, were in the jewelry business in Syracuse, NY, around the turn of the century. He had one brother who died, then when his parents died, he came into "quite a little money", began traveling around and spent it quickly. He was living in Omaha, Nebraska when married Bertha Jane Burnett of Oklahoma in 1912. He was educated in England, traveling several times, maybe 8, across the ocean, training to be a doctor, but I don't think he finished his education. He traveled and put on sales for business going out of business. He had one son, Leonard Ernest Chapman, when he died at the age of 40 in 1917. Ernest told his wife if anything ever happened to him, to get in touch with his family in England and she would have an inheiritance coming, but would have to live in Englad to get it, so she never bothered checking it out. This is about all I know about him, except some stories I've been told but nothing to help find his ancestors. Can anyone help?
