Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of John Jones, widower, to Mary Osland, widow.. Witness Jane Ingram. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of Hayes Ingham to Mary Ann Winchester. Witnesses James Noakes and Ellen Winchester of West Maitland. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of William Schofield to Mary Ann Spencer. Witnesses James Spencer and Mary Ann Schofield, both of West Maitland. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of James Hoyle to Elizabeth Smith, both from Lochinvar. Witnesses Thomas Bower and Mary Colman. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of Abraham Solomon to Mary Anne Munson. Witness Robert Munson. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of William Wilkinson to Sarah Todhunter. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of William Newman to Agnes Raven, widow. Witness James Noakes. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of Frederick Pepperall to Sarah Burnett. Witnesses Elizabeth Knowell and Richard Thomas Jones. Chaplain Robert Chapman
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of William Spence to Harriet Wenham. Witnesses Thomas Buxton and Sarah Dymock both of West Maitland. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of Thomas Cooper to Mary McCrea. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of William Miles to Ellen Osling. Witnesses John Osling and Mary Bailey of West Maitland. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of William Causten to Elizabeth Kendall. Witnesses George Towns of Paterson and Eliza Harris of West Maitland. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of James Mann Kay to Emma Wilson. Witnesses John Mann, David Wilson and Eliza Kerrigan. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of Samuel Dennis Gunter to Anne Jane Thorpe. Witnesses Samuel Gunter of West Maitland and Eliza Gunter of West Maitland. Chaplain Rev. Robert Gunter
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of Thomas Joslin of Clarence town to Georgiana Shea, widow. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of Charles Andrew Hughes of Black Creek to Mary Lowe. Witnesses Thomas Hughes and Jane Sully of West Maitland. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
Source:
West Maitland Marriage Register 1844 - 1855. Living Histories
Details:
Marriage of John Osland to Mary Bailey. Witnesses William Miles and Ellen Miles of West Maitland. Chaplain Rev. Robert Chapman
Details:
The Rev. Robert Chapman, Incumbent of St. Marys, West Maitland, died on Sunday evening. We write these lines with very deep regret, which we are certain is shared by nearly every person in Maitland. Mr. Chapman had been the clergyman of St. Mary s for over thirty years about thirty-two years we think. As we are informed, he was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of Australia, at St. Andrews Church, Sydney, on Sept 20, 1846. And was appointed to St . Marys early in 1847. - Mr. Chapman succeeded here the Rev. W Stack a man so able, and so much beloved by his congregation, and by the public of Maitland generally, that it was a trying situation for Mr. Chapman then quite a young man, and a young minister. He soon however acquired the love and esteem of the parish and inhabitants; and after a time so constant was the inability of persons desiring to get seats in St. Marys then a much smaller church than the present one that a deliberate effort was made to divide the large parish, and to erect a church in the part cut off. Mr. Chapman took an active part in this movement; and the writer remembers that at a meeting for the purpose, held in St. Marys schoolroom, Mr. Chapman, speaking as chairman, strongly supported the scheme, but ex-pressed doubts whether the members of the Church of England would prove sufficiently numerous, and sufficiently desirous to attend church, to fill both churches. The present writer had just been advocating the building of a large church in St. Pauls, the new parish cut out of St. Mary s. After the division was made, Mr. Chapman was agreeably surprised to find that more seats were still wanted at St. Mary s than were obtainable although St. Paul s was well filled and after a few years the present large and costly St. Mary s Church was erected to supply what had become a pressing want. And from nearly the very first day of its being opened to the present day, there have always been more applicants for seats in St. Marys than could be supplied. Mr. Chapman was not only successful in this keeping together a large congregation for certainly twenty-five years his church always more than filled, so far as applicants for seats were concerned but he always had a considerable number of communicants; and he never failed to be ready to present to the Bishop for confirmation a large number of young persons. Mr. Chapman s special virtue however remains to be noticed. He was an admirable minister of the gospel at the bedside of the sick a most welcome visitant in the sickroom. And very constant and heavy at times was the demand thus made on him, always cheerfully met. In his visits to families, what is called parish visiting, Mr. Chapman was also very persevering, and very much esteemed. During the many disastrous floods of the Hunter, Mr. Chapman took part with all the other clergymen of the town, of all de-nominations, in organising and administering relief, and in the raising of public subscriptions for that purpose. He was active also, for years, as the head of St. Mary s Young Men s Society, which used to hold scriptural and argumentative meetings in St. Mary s schoolroom. Some of our best public speakers learnt to practise their art in public at those meetings. Gradually the meetings assumed very markedly the character of public debates, at which persons of all religions, being members, took part and if we are not mistaken this eventually led to divisions, and the ultimate failure of the society. Besides his labours in St. Mary s Parish, Mr. Chapman devoted a good deal of time to outstation churches. And at the Maitland Hospital he must have been a frequent visitor as a Christian minister, for the writer, years since, when a member of the committee, heard Mr. Chapman s name more frequently from the patients, as a visitor to their bedsides, than the name of any other minister. Mr. Chapman was one of those clergymen who could not fall in with the spirit of our Public Schools Act. To him it appeared that the daily reading of the Bible in school, the daily supervision and care of the one clergyman, in his parish school, was not only best, but that it was his duty as a parish clergyman to maintain this position. And it is remarkable that St. Marys school has been for many years, and to the time of Mr. Chapman s lamented death, not only one of the very largest of Maitland schools, but one at which many persons now amongst us have received a sound education. For some few years past Mr. Chapman s strength had been failing. Besides being a devoted servant to his Heavenly Master, he was a man who felt acutely the loss of human friendship, as to persons whom he esteemed, poor or rich. And a succession of unhappy events, not brought on by himself, caused him very much pain and sorrow, not only directly but through others in the way we have hinted. Humanly speaking, the last of these events seems to have brought him suddenly to his grave. But beyond doubt that is not correct. Doubtless the "time appointed" was closely approaching, and God was preparing his old servant by trials and sorrows for more entire reliance on him alone, and thus for more assured eternal blessedness. He has gone to his rest, at the age of nearly sixty-five years. It may be well to add that the funeral is fixed for ten o clock this (Tuesday) morning.
Surname:
Chapman (obit.,)
Details:
The announcement of the Rev. R. Chapman s death will be received throughout the length and breadth of the diocese of Newcastle, and beyond it, with profound regret that he has passed away, that that mild and reverent face will no more be seen in the church which he loved and adorned, no more in the homes of his beloved people. It now only remains to lay before your readers some interesting particulars concerning the career of this justly beloved clergyman. We are informed that shortly after leaving school his religious tendencies led him to form a strong desire to devote himself to the work of the ministry. With this object in view he matriculated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated, until the last term, when unhappily the death of his father caused a failure in the supply of funds; and consequently he withdrew from college, and forth-with he determined to seek for an opening for his energies in the colonies. He arrived at Swan River in the year 1843 and while there he received from Judge Paten an offer or a lucrative appointment in India, accompanied by a supply of means to take him to that country. He decided not to go to India, but came on to this country returning the money and respectfully declining the appointment. His course was marked out for him by a kind and overruling Providence. He was, on his arrival, immediately brought acquainted with friends, who introduced him to that good man Bishop Broughton, for whom Mr. Chapman had the greatest esteem. It was about this time that he visited West Maitland, and made the acquaintance of Canon Stack, little thinking at that time that he would succeed that gentleman as incumbent of St. Mary s. On his return to Sydney, Bishop Broughton, recognising his missionary zeal and devotion, appointed him as assistant to the chaplain of Norfolk Island, where for about three year she spent a most useful life doing much good among the soldiers, and endearing himself to many unfortunate men who had been sent there, by that faithfulness which appears from the beginning of his life to have marked his character. After a useful career at Norfolk Island, he was summoned to Sydney by his Bishop to be ordained a deacon, for which he had been making careful preparation during the past three years. The result of his examination was not only highly successful, but the Bishop, in handing to him his letters of orders, expressed the great pleasure he had in doing so; and at the same time complimented him on the satisfactory examination which he had passed. This important event, which was the realisation of the object of his life, took place in the year 1846, which was the year of his arrival to take charge of St. Marys, in succession to the Rev. W. Stack. In looking back at the faithful labours which have just closed, it is impossible not to be struck with the high, reverent, and consistent manner in which the duties of his sacred office have been discharged. He influenced by his life; he taught by his conduct. His ministry has been marked by the most faithful devotion to his work he literally died at his work. During the thirty-three years which he has spent in Maitland he has not only not left his post to visit his native land, but he never had any lengthened holiday until sheer exhaustion compelled him to rest. His love of order and neatness made his Church both internally and externally a model; while the Parsonage grounds are laid out with such taste, and always kept with such neatness, as to make them at once a model as well as an object of admiration. His ministrations within the church were marked, as long as his strength permitted, by a calm but energetic delivery of the message he was sent to proclaim; always mingled with love; indeed there are many who will long remember him as a comforter. In the midst of their cares and anxieties, he encouraged the desponding with higher hopes, and solaced the bereaved with anticipations of that better land of which he is now an inhabitant. As a citizen he took no prominent part in party questions, but in every movement for the moral and religious welfare of the town he was always ready to bestow his time and money. The young were ever an object of his deepest interest, as in them he saw the hope and wellbeing of this his adopted country. The Rev. Mr. Chapman acted as a voluntary chaplain to the Hospital of this town, and the benefits which he conferred obtained for him the honorary distinction of a life member of that Institution. The indefatigable exertions which he made, in conjunction with the members of his church, some years ago in the erection of St. Marys, and within the past twelve months towards paying off the large debt which rested upon it, are too fresh in the memory of your readers to require further notice. Suffice it to say that it was after this last effort, which involved such a large amount of correspondence and other labours, that the disease began to manifest itself which has terminated fatally. If he had sought for earthly reward or honor, or applause, which he did not he certainly received it in the congratulations of his clerical brethren, at the consecration of St. Marys. If he had desired to leave an abiding monument of his successful labours, the noble structure of St. Marys would be more than sufficient. Happily such feelings had no place with him. He desired to see God honored in a suitable sanctuary, he rejoiced to worship with his beloved people and sing the praises of the eternal in the beauty of holiness. From the earthly to the Heavenly temple he passed away on Sunday evening, Feb. 9, at 7.15, the very time when he had for so many years entered the earthly sanctuary to worship in the midst of his people The congregation had assembled, but the bell which often had summoned them, now tolled the departure of their faithful pastor to the rest of his Divine Master.
