evelyn mary ann chapman
c. 1915
Evelyn was born in Bristol, Somerset to Thomas Chapman and Mary Ann Stephens. Neither her birth nor baptism record has been found but the available records list her year of birth between 1868 — 70. In the most recent record, the 1939 Register, she listed her date of birth as 21 March 1870.
In 1871, Evelyn was living with her parents and four siblings on Regent Street in Bedminster to the south west of Bristol. The family was still in the town in 1881 but had moved to 3 Hillsbridge Court in Bedminster where Thomas Chapman worked as a Stone Mason.
Evelyn married Albert Daniel Lambert on 19 July 1888 at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Sheerness, Kent. Daniel, as he was known, was born in Headington, Oxforshire in 1860 to Joseph Lambert and his wife Mary Deroussier. Daniel was an Insurance Agent for the Prudential Assurance Company and travelled throughout the midlands and southern England as part of his job.
After their marriage, they settled at 8 Ardville Road in Brixton where their first daughter, Lilian, was born. She was followed by Evelyn on 16 December 1891 and Louisa in 1893.
Daniel died on 18 November 1897 in Wandsworth, aged only 37 years, but the cause of his death is not known. The family was living at 46 Brynmaer Road in Battersea at the time and Daniel left an estate valued at £256. Evelyn was pregnant when Daniel died and she gave birth to their fourth daughter, Mary, shortly after he died.
Fourteen months after her husband’s death, Evelyn married a second time to John William Malandain on 1 January 1899 at St Paul’s Church in Deptford. John’s father also worked for the Prudential Assurance Company and this may explain how they met. Evelyn and John went on to have eight children.
Evelyn’s daughter Evelyn married William Ingram at St Antholin in Nunhead on 7 August 1915. William was born on 23 May 1885 to George Frederick Ingram and his wife Fanny and worked as an Accounting Clerk for a Bookseller. They had two children, Pauline Lilian in 1916 and Douglas Malcolm in 1917. William died in Maidstone in the summer of 1938 of unknown causes and Evelyn returned to her mother and step-father’s home in Peckham. She later remarried to a man named Bolton.
Two days after her sister’s wedding, Lilian married William Whowall at the same church in Nunhead. Bill was born in Peckham on 8 September 1885 to William Henry Whowall and Alice Mary Dean and worked as a Boot Dealer along with has father. They had two children, Lilian Alice born in 1918 and William Arthur in 1926. William died at St Giles Hospital in Camberwell on 19 August 1958 and probate was granted on his £14 000 estate to his wife. Lilian died in Camberwell on her 85th birthday.
Youngest daugther Mary married Ronald Wilson in Camberwell in 1926 but it is not known if they had any children while Louisa, known as Lena, never married.
Evelyn Chapman retired to Brighton with her husband and died there in 1944. She was buried at the Camberwell Old Cemetery in Southwark.