<P> Chapman is an English surname derived from the Old English occupational name céapmann `` marketman , monger , merchant '' , from the verb céapan , cypan `` to buy or sell '' and the noun form ceap `` barter , business ; a purchase . '' Alternate spellings include Caepmon , Cepeman , Chepmon , Cypman ( n ) , and Shapman . ( By 1600 , the occupational name chapman had come to be applied to an itinerant dealer in particular , but it remained in use for both `` customer , buyer '' and `` merchant '' in the 17th and 18th centuries . Modern chiefly British slang chap `` man '' arose from the use of the abbreviated word to mean a customer , one with whom to bargain . ) </P>
<P> Chapman is an English surname derived from the Old English occupational name céapmann `` marketman , monger , merchant '' , from the verb céapan , cypan `` to buy or sell '' and the noun form ceap `` barter , business ; a purchase . '' Alternate spellings include Caepmon , Cepeman , Chepmon , Cypman ( n ) , and Shapman . ( By 1600 , the occupational name chapman had come to be applied to an itinerant dealer in particular , but it remained in use for both `` customer , buyer '' and `` merchant '' in the 17th and 18th centuries . Modern chiefly British slang chap `` man '' arose from the use of the abbreviated word to mean a customer , one with whom to bargain . ) </P>
where did the last name chapman originate from
where did the last name chapman originate from
from the Old English occupational name céapmann `` marketman , monger , merchant '' , from the verb céapan , cypan `` to buy or sell '' and the noun form ceap `` barter , business ; a purchase . ''
from the Old English occupational name céapmann `` marketman , monger , merchant '' , from the verb céapan , cypan `` to buy or sell '' and the noun form ceap `` barter , business ; a purchase . ''