Family of William Chaplin

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1.  WILLIAM¹ CHAPLIN was born Abt. 1550 in Semer, Suffolk, England, and died October 15, 1629 in Semer, Suffolk, England.  He married (1) ANN CLOPTON.    He married (2) AGNES D. UNKNOWN Bef. 1583 in Semer, Suffolk, England.  She died September 26, 1602 in Semer, Suffolk, England.

 

Notes for WILLIAM CHAPLIN:

Swamp Yankee, by James Allyn, page 10.

     His wife was Martha Chapen (Chapin) daughter of Capt. Robert Chapen of Edmundsbury.

 

   Sources: Roberts/Reitwiesner; Parke Society.

   Parke Society: William Chaplin Jr. married (1) Agnes D. and (2) Ann Clopton.

He had several children by both wives.

   Roberts/Reitwiesner: William Chaplin, buried at Semer, Suffolk, 15 Oct. 1629.

 

 

Notes for AGNES D. UNKNOWN:

Sources: Roberts/Reitwiesner; Parke Society.

   Parke Society: William Chaplin Jr. married (1) Agnes D. and (2) Ann Clopton. He had several children by both wives.

   Roberts/Reitwiesner: Agnes _________, first wife, buried at Semer, Suffolk, 26 Sept. 1602.

 

 

More About WILLIAM CHAPLIN and AGNES UNKNOWN:

Marriage: Bef. 1583, Semer, Suffolk, England

     

Children of WILLIAM CHAPLIN and AGNES UNKNOWN are:

              i.   MARTHA² CHAPLIN, d. 1643, Mystic, New London Co., Connecticut; m. ROBERT PARKE, February 09, 1601/02, Semer, Suffolk, England; b. June 03, 1580, Preston,, England; d. February 04, 1664/65, Mystic, New London Co., Connecticut.

 

Notes for MARTHA CHAPLIN:

Parke Family Genealogy, by SF Parks, page 27.

     It is probable that she died in EN before the family came to this country, as no mention has been found of her here.

 

Note: Martha Chaplin was her husband's first cousin, daughter of William Chaplin of Semer, co Suffolk.

William Chaplin whose daughter married Robert Parke of Gestingthorpe was of Tarnes Farm, Long Melford, and not the same person. (NEHG "Register" v 136.)

 

  Sources: Parke Assn. Newsletter, Vol XV, #3, p. 35 (Fall 1978); History of the Town of Stonington by Wheeler; Horace Perkins book; F.S. Parks book; Boston Evening Transcript; Roberts/Reitwiesner; The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 by Charles Edward Banks; Topographical Dictionary; Potter-Richardson Memorial; American Ancestors and Counsins of the Princess of Wales by Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner.

  Winthrop: Martha Chaplin Parke, wife of Robert. Came with Winthrop fleet on the Arbella with husband and son Thomas.

  Dictionary: A Clement Chaplin of Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, settled in Cambridge, Mass. (NEHGR 38/343). Relative?

  Wheeler, Memorial and BT erroneously have her the daughter of Robert Chapin/Chapen, not the great-granddaughter of Robert Chaplin.

  AF records list her surname as Chapen and Chaplin. The Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography says various spellings in England and America are: Chapen, Chapan, Capinne, Calpin and Chapin. This book goes with Chapin, which comes from 10th century France.

  A Samuel Chapin admitted freeman in Massachusetts 2 June 1641. He among founders of Springfield, MA. Relative? Martha had a son named Samuel Parke.

  She was married in Edmundsbury (sic), according to an AF record, but was christened in Edmundsberg (sic), the same record says. *P* record says christened 1584, Long Melford, Suffolk, and died before 1630, Hitcham, Suffolk.

  Perkins book says died before 1630, Hitcham, Bildeston, England.

  Parke Society official says 1643 death date is "per Jacobus, Grankeary Family, 1643." Was this date assumed because he married Alice Freeman Thompson in 1644????

   Memorial: Martha Chapin (sic), married Robert Parke in 1601. With her husband and children she sailed from Cowes for New England 29 March 1630 on the Arbella. The couple was living in Wethersfield, CT, by 1640. She died there in 1643.

  Roberts/Reitwiesner: Martha Chaplin, baptized Semer, Suffolk, England, 4 Feb. 1583/4. Died probably by 1643 (whether she came to New England is unknown). She and Robert Parke were first cousins. More details, page 31.

 

 

More About MARTHA CHAPLIN:

Burial: Old Whitehall Cemetery, Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut

Christening: February 04, 1583/84, Semer, Suffolk, England

 

              ii.   THOMAS CHAPLIN.

             iii.   CLEMENT CHAPLIN, b. Abt. 1587; d. 1656, Thetford, Norfolk, England.

 

Notes for CLEMENT CHAPLIN:

Source: TAG 33/11.

   TAG: Clement Chaplin, age 48, came to New England in the Mary and John in 1635. He was a chandler from Bury, Suffolk; went to Connecticut with the Rev. Hooker and settled in Wethersfield and was deputy to the General Court in 1637 and 1643 and treasurer of Connecticut Colony in 1638. He later returned to England and died at Thetford, Norfolk, in 1656. Names brother Thomas Chapline and nephew William Parke (son of Martha Chaplin) of "Rocksbury in Newe England" as supervisors of the will. Also named wife Sarah but no children.

   Planters of the Commonwealth says a Clement Chaplin of Thetford, Norfolk, came to Cambridge, Mass., in 1635 on the Elizabeth and Anne.

 

 

             iv.   ROBERT CHAPLIN, b. 1602, Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England.

 

Notes for ROBERT CHAPLIN:

Source: Roberts/Reitwiesner.

   Roberts/Reitwiesner: Robert Chaplin. He was the father of a lord mayor of London, the grandfather of a baronet and an ancestor of all viscounts Chaplin and Canterbury, all barons Manners and various other British peers. Born 1602, died 1643/4. Of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. See The American Genealogist, 33 (1975): 11-13, and sources cited therein; Joseph James Muskett, Suffolk Manorial Families, 3:102-120, and recent edtions of Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage (the Chaplin article especially).