Fourth generation Chapman born & raised in Leavenworth, Kansas. Our Chapman ancestors settled in Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, then known as "Bleeding Kansas," in 1858. Three generations took the water route from England to Chicago, where Matilda Chapman was born. They most likely traveled to Kansas by canal & river, never needing to trek overland before the advent of cross country roads & trains.

Other ancestral surnames: Aartsen, Abrahams, Alberry, Arnold, Baker, Bauss, Becker, Berby, Berman, Belling, Bill, Birk, Blijker, Borhek, Bosloper, Bradsberry (Bradsbury), Brunner, Chapman, Coppoolse, de Bree, de Jongh, Dekker, DeLeeuw, DeRidder, DeVogel, Devore, de Witte, Dircksen, Duck, Edmunds, Eggby, Engel, Evertson, Fetter, Fischel, Fisher, Fitte, Flipse, Gifford, Gold, Gort, Haefkens (Haafkens), Hartmann, Hazard, Hines, Holcomb, Hopper, Hosterman, Hubregtse, Ipsen, Jackson, Jost, Kautzmann, Keller, Keysers, Klinke, Knauff, Knight, Knowles, Komtebedde, Kremser, Lone, Luckenbach, Messen, Mierop, Musselman, Musson, Northrup, Nuij, Palmer, Randal, Rutgers, Sarvels, Scharnhorst, Schlotterer, Seeley, Serres, Skilton, Slocum, Smallwood, Sparrentak, Sturges, Sweigart [Schweicker], Swodel, Teunissen, Thomas, Trapp, Tucker, Valk, Van Beusekom, van Blootenburgh, van Brenck, Van De Weel, van den Doorslag, van der Have, van der Willigen, van Dijck, van Gijtenbeek, van Heun, van Kouteren, van Langelaer, van Luttersveld, van Pelten, van Ravesloot, van Rietveld, van Triest, van Wijck, van Wolfswinkel, van Zijl, Verbrugh, Verduijn, Verschrage, Verschuur, Wadde, Wagner, Wijnhamer, Wildenboer, Willhardt, Williams, Wilson & Wisse.

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God bless Kansas! And God bless Leavenworth!

Major, USMC (Ret.)

Fourth generation Chapman born & raised in Leavenworth, Kansas. Our Chapman ancestors settled in Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, then known as "Bleeding Kansas," in 1858. Three generations took the water route from England to Chicago, where Matilda Chapman was born. They most likely traveled to Kansas by canal & river, never needing to trek overland before the advent of cross country roads & trains.

Other ancestral surnames: Aartsen, Abrahams, Alberry, Arnold, Baker, Bauss, Becker, Berby, Berman, Belling, Bill, Birk, Blijker, Borhek, Bosloper, Bradsberry (Bradsbury), Brunner, Chapman, Coppoolse, de Bree, de Jongh, Dekker, DeLeeuw, DeRidder, DeVogel, Devore, de Witte, Dircksen, Duck, Edmunds, Eggby, Engel, Evertson, Fetter, Fischel, Fisher, Fitte, Flipse, Gifford, Gold, Gort, Haefkens (Haafkens), Hartmann, Hazard, Hines, Holcomb, Hopper, Hosterman, Hubregtse, Ipsen, Jackson, Jost, Kautzmann, Keller, Keysers, Klinke, Knauff, Knight, Knowles, Komtebedde, Kremser, Lone, Luckenbach, Messen, Mierop, Musselman, Musson, Northrup, Nuij, Palmer, Randal, Rutgers, Sarvels, Scharnhorst, Schlotterer, Seeley, Serres, Skilton, Slocum, Smallwood, Sparrentak, Sturges, Sweigart [Schweicker], Swodel, Teunissen, Thomas, Trapp, Tucker, Valk, Van Beusekom, van Blootenburgh, van Brenck, Van De Weel, van den Doorslag, van der Have, van der Willigen, van Dijck, van Gijtenbeek, van Heun, van Kouteren, van Langelaer, van Luttersveld, van Pelten, van Ravesloot, van Rietveld, van Triest, van Wijck, van Wolfswinkel, van Zijl, Verbrugh, Verduijn, Verschrage, Verschuur, Wadde, Wagner, Wijnhamer, Wildenboer, Willhardt, Williams, Wilson & Wisse.

Please copy & share any photos or documents I've uploaded. And, following Find A Grave guidelines, please post death certificates on any of my memorials for which you find one missing.

I sponsor the memorials of all known blood relatives. If you sponsor a memorial I manage, I'll grant your transfer request.

God bless Kansas! And God bless Leavenworth!

Major, USMC (Ret.)