Family of Joseph Roper and Letitia Chapman

Husband: Joseph Roper

  • Name:

  • Joseph Roper1

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 1763 (app)2 3

  •  

  • Death:

  • Sep 1838 (age 74-75)3 2

  •  

  • Burial:

  • 14 Sep 1838

  • St. Catherine's Church, Stowmarket Road, Ringshall, Suffolk, England2 3

  •  

  • aged 75 of Stowmarket

Wife: Letitia Chapman

  • Name:

  • Letitia Chapman1

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 1766 (app)3 2

  •  

  • Death:

  • Sep 1838 (age 71-72)2 3

  •  

  • Burial:

  • 12 Sep 1838

  • St. Peter and St. Mary's Church, Church Walk, Stowmarket, Suffolk, England3 2

  •  

  • aged 72 of Stowmarket

Child 1: Joseph Roper

  • Name:

  • Joseph Roper4 1

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Elizabeth Crooks (1794?- )

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • a pipe maker5

  • Birth:

  • 1796 (app)2

  •  

  • Baptism:

  • 5 Jun 1796 (age 0)

  • St. Peter and St. Mary's Church, Church Walk, Stowmarket, Suffolk, England1

  •  

  • son of Joseph Roper and Letitia late Chapman

  • Death:

  • Sep 1838 (age 41-42)

  • Suffolk, England2 3 6

  •  

  • died of erysipelas (an acute skin and lymphatic infection)

  • Burial:

  • 8 Sep 1838

  • St. Peter and St. Mary's Church, Church Walk, Stowmarket, Suffolk, England2 3

  •  

  • aged 42 of Stowmarket

Sources

1.

Suffolk Family History Society - Stow and Thedwastre Baptisms 1754-1812, (2011 SFK-BPI-05/P2 own copy).

2.

Suffolk Family History Society - Suffolk Burial Index, (2020 SFK-BUI/03-1 own copy).

3.

The Federation of Family History Societies, National Burial Index for England & Wales v.3, (2010 own copy).

4.

Suffolk Family History Society - Suffolk Marriage Index 1813 - 1837, (1992 - 2005 own copy). volume:5 page:59.

5.

Suffolk Family History Society - Stow and Thedwastre Baptisms 1813-1900, (2011 SFK-BPI-05/P1 own copy). baptisms of daughter Sarah and son William Allen.

6.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Stow 1838 quarter:3 volume:12 page:276 or 272.